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looorg [soylentnews.org] writes:

Cleaning up space junk with magnets in space!

Prototype mission. It might run into a bit of an issue since a lot of satellites (if not all) tend to be made of things that are not magnetic -- future solution is apparently to attach a magnetic plate to your satellites so this janitor (or recycling-) satellite can attract them and clean them up.

They really missed out tho -- they should just have named it Roger Wilco

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271533-satellite-that-can-clean-up-space-junk-with-a-magnet-about-to-launch/#ixzz6pOFXSGkd [newscientist.com]

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