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Who in the UK is responsible for dealing with an impact?

In the UK the Cabinet Office (Emergency Planning Division) is the lead government department for the uncontrolled re-entry of man made satellites. It is therefore appropriate for them to act in the same way for the re-entry of risk objects from space.

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