Space Harpoon Tested In Search For Answer To Junk In Orbit
- 9 years ago
With tens of thousands of pieces of space junk in orbit, officials and experts from the worlds space agencies are meeting to discuss how to clean it up. The risk .\r
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UK space firm Astrium has developed a new way to capture large items of space junk and pull them out of orbit using a harpoon and tether.\r
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22 April 2013 What do you do with 6000 tons of space junk traveling at thousands of miles an hour? Harpoon it of course. It might sound like a scenario straight .\r
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Good ol BBC.
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UK space firm Astrium has developed a new way to capture large items of space junk and pull them out of orbit using a harpoon and tether.\r
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22 April 2013 What do you do with 6000 tons of space junk traveling at thousands of miles an hour? Harpoon it of course. It might sound like a scenario straight .\r
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Good ol BBC.