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Title    Space Junk Removal Testing Craft Ejected From the ISS
Date    Friday June 22 2018, @01:28PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the gonna-need-a-bigger-net dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/06/22/0043209

takyon writes:

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

Original Submission

Links
  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "Astronauts eject UK-led space junk demo mission" - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44550082
  3. "RemoveDebris" - https://www.surrey.ac.uk/surrey-space-centre/missions/removedebris
  4. "SpaceX Launches CRS-14 Resupply Mission to the ISS" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/04/03/0050251
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=27465
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