UK Space Industry Aims to Remove Dangerous Space Junk from Orbit
UK Space Industry Aims to Remove Dangerous Space Junk from Orbit By Thomas Pfeiffer and Thomas Seal | April 16, 2021 A defunct satellite spent early April hurtling through space toward the body of an old rocket, threatening a collision that the European Union’s Space Surveillance and Tracking Consortium estimated could generate more than 4 million pieces of debris. In the end, the two objects just missed each other, but the incident was a reminder of the increasing prevalence—and danger—of space junk. There are more than 8,000 tons of garbage in orbit...
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