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This cleanup satellite is designed to gobble up space debris like Pac-Man


This cleanup satellite is designed to gobble up space debris like Pac-Man A team of engineers has been at work for the past three years to develop a space cleanup satellite. The intent is to eliminate threatening, human-made orbital debris. The worry is not new — there's lots of clutter to pick and choose from, be it broken down satellites to tossed away rocket stages. A new entry to de-litter Earth orbit is the CleanSpace One project, spearheaded by researchers from eSpace, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne's (EPFL) Center for Space Engineering and Signal Processing 5 Laboratory and HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland.   More



(Source: Mashable - Aug 4)

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