A demonstration mission to test an idea to clean up space debris launched Monday morning local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology ...

A demonstration mission to test new technology developed by the company Astroscale to clean up space debris is set to launch in the early hours of Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

We could also tax space junk offenders, making them pay for not just the debris they leave in space, but for the duration they leave it in space, thus incentivizing them to clean up their mess ...

Cleaning Up Space Junk The European Space Agency says a self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit in 2025 to begin work on the world's first space cleanup mission. Jan Woerner of the European ...

Space Junk Clean Up: 7 Wild Ways to Destroy Orbital Debris. Countdowns. By Elizabeth Howell published 3 March 2014 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

So cleaning up the debris has become a priority, and there are teams from Colorado and beyond working on technology such as a “space harpoon” to move junk out of the way and a “space fence ...

Space debris may also be affected by the breakup of older spacecraft. In February 2015, a Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP-F13) spacecraft, called USA 109, which had gone up 20 years ...

“Cleaning up space debris is not optional,” explained associate professor Dr. Carolin Frueh of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who was not involved in the report.

One of the reasons space debris is so hard to clean up is because it is often moving extremely fast, at speeds of up to 17,500 miles per hour, ...

Fortunately, there have been very few collisions in orbit so far The US National Research Council's report on space debris, external is not the first of its kind. A wide range of space agencies ...

Although assessing the quantity of space debris can be challenging due to its dimension, ESA's statistical model has ...