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With hundreds of satellites launched each year and tens of thousands more planned, scientists are increasingly concerned about an emerging problem: emissions from the fuels burned in launches and from the pollutants released when satellites and rocket stages flame out on reentry. It seems increasingly clear that rocket emission plumes, like reentries, will have a significant effect on the ozone layer.

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