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Parallel to the legal issues surrounding this proposed debris removal mission are the political issues. Most significant to space debris removal is the space weapons debate, which is led primarily by Russia and China. The crux of this issue is that methodologies and instrumentation used to remove space debris from orbit could also be used to interfere with a functioning satellite belonging to another state, or provide a test bed for a future “break-out” anti-satellite weapon that would be deployed in the event of pending hostilities.