Assertion: stardust | /r/CapableOf | deflect asteroid
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text: Stardust, begun in February 2013, was a four-year research and training program looking into ways of removing space junk (such as fragments of defunct satellites which risk damaging functioning satellites if they collide with them), and ways to deflect asteroids which could have "potentially devastating consequences" if they crash into the Earth.