Astronauts eject UK-led space junk demo mission
A UK-led project to showcase methods to tackle space junk has just been pushed out of the International Space Station.
The RemoveDebris satellite was ejected a short while ago with the help of a robotic arm.
The 100kg craft, built in Guildford, has a net and a harpoon.
These are just two of the multiple ideas currently being considered to snare rogue hardware, some 7,500 tonnes of which is now said to be circling the planet.
Previously: SpaceX Launches CRS-14 Resupply Mission to the ISS
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @10:33PM
Way ahead of it's time, apparently. Isaac Asimov was the show's scientific adviser:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_1 [wikipedia.org]