There’s big money in space junk
Japanese startup Astroscale has been testing its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) technology,
The two spacecraft that comprise ELSA-d a 175kg servicer and a 17kg cubesat client equipped with a magnetic docking plate
the company said ELSA-d had successfully released and recaptured the client multiple times,
Astroscale is set to resume it soon and is learning valuable lessons about satellite servicing operations in space,
Astroscale is also working on several other on-orbit products.
The tech firm is among the early movers in a developing high-tech garbage disposal industry.
millions of pieces of space junk circle the Earth. The result of explosions, collisions or anti-satellite tests
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