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NASA Space Technology NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy announced the creation of a new space sustainability division within NASA at the AMOS conference Sept. 20. Credit: AMOS webcastPARIS — NASA has established a space sustainability division that will consolidate much of the work the agency is doing on orbital debris and related issues.Speaking at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference Sept. 19, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy said the agency received the required approvals from congressional appropriations committees the previous day for the reorganization required to create the division.The division will be a “unified organization that will integrate our operational, research and policy functions,” she said.  Those functions had been spread out among several offices spread out among different NASA mission directorates and centers.She noted eight different entities within NASA have...