how to capture defunct satellites and other space junk and bring it back to Earth
- Written by: Ralph Cooney, Professor Emeritus in Advanced Materials, University of Auckland
European Space Agency, CC BY-NDMore than half of the thousands of satellites in orbit are now defunct, and this accumulation of floating space debris has been described as a “fatal problem” for current and future space missions and human space travel.
An estimated 130 million objects smaller than 1cm and 34,000 larger than 10cm are...
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