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- SpaceX Falcon 9 just rocketed a harpoon and net into orbit to hunt space junk Wed, 4 Apr 18, 1:15amHuman trash now litters space in the form of broken hardware and spacecrafts circling Earth. But the Surrey Space Center is working on tackling the issue - and they just got a boost from SpaceX. Their RemoveDEBRIS technology...
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocketed a harpoon and net into orbit that will be used to hunt space junk Wed, 4 Apr 18, 1:15amHuman trash now litters space in the form of broken hardware and spacecrafts circling Earth. But the Surrey Space Center, based at the University of Surrey, and partners aim to tackle the issue - and they just got a boost...
- Airbus wants to harpoon a satellite and bring it back to Earth Tue, 20 Mar 18, 2:51amThe aeronautics company Airbus is currently testing a three-foot harpoon they hope will catch the nonfunctional satellite Envisat and pull it back to Earth...
- China wants to destroy space junk with giant lasers Thu, 18 Jan 18, 10:14pmNot only do we need to worry about pollution on Earth, but also in space. A team of six scientists in China are working on a very science-fiction-sounding solution: zapping that space trash with lasers. Could a space-based...
- Chinese space station could plummet back to Earth in March Thu, 4 Jan 18, 11:36pmChina lost control of their first space station Tiangong-1 in 2016 - and now pieces of it could come crashing back down to Earth. Research organization Aerospace Corporation recently predicted the station could re-enter our...
- ESA unveils magnetic space tug to corral broken satellites drifting in space Thu, 29 Jun 17, 12:08amJapan's experiment to clean up space junk earlier this year may have ended in failure, but the world's space agencies haven't given up on the problem yet...
- ESA unveils magnetic space tug to corall broken satellites drifting in space Thu, 29 Jun 17, 12:08amJapan's experiment to clean up space debris earlier this year may have ended in failure, but the world's space agencies haven't given up on the problem yet...
- INTERVIEW: Designer Daan Roosegaarde on smog temples, space trash, and what's next Mon, 22 May 17, 10:01pmWe've built cities that do us harm, according to groundbreaking Netherlands designer Daan Roosegaarde. Along with his team at Studio Roosegaarde, he's tackling the pollution we've generated in our metropolises, through the...
- 14 Ton Failed Russian Space Probe Is Now Littered Somewhere in Earth’s Oceans Tue, 24 Jan 12, 4:09amNews that an unmanned failed Russian space probe — the Phobos-Grunt, or Phobos-Ground in English — was about to smack into Earth shot like wildfire through the airwaves last week as the truth emerged that the...