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space debris removal demonstration launch


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  • StarLord
    2021-03-22 07:28:09 PM
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    Just as we are talking about space junk, which come to find out there is over 9000 tons up there. A rocket has launched carrying an Earth imager that was developed in South Korea. The demonstration mission consists of two spacecraft, a servicer, and a client. The servicer will use sensors to find the client. Basically like a game of cat and mouse. The servicer will chase down the client and try to latch onto it. The mission is to simulate how we could rendezvous with, dock, and capture pieces of free-floating space junk. The junk would be lowered to where it re-enters Earth's atmosphere. Pretty neat, I hope it works out.
  • jembers
    2021-03-23 11:50:45 AM
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    Ok now that's pretty cool. They'd definitely have to scale it up to more than just one servicer of course.
  • bearnard23
    2021-03-24 05:40:37 AM
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    I found out that some space company from GB is going to make so called cleaning mission that is about to clean Earth`s orbit from space junk. The Clearspace-1 satellite, or ‘The Claw’, represents the first step towards a clean space environment by being the first space debris removal dedicated mission.
  • Ziggy
    2021-03-28 06:22:19 PM
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    bearnard23 Wrote: I found out that some space company from GB is going to make so called cleaning mission that is about to clean Earth`s orbit from space junk. The Clearspace-1 satellite, or ‘The Claw’, represents the first step towards a clean space environment by being the first space debris removal dedicated mission.
    This is great added news. Thanks for sharing that. I'm glad there's more than one effort to clean up space junk out there.
  • bearnard23
    2021-03-29 10:15:09 AM
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    Yeah, we need to solve this issue because we are now close to ‘Kessler syndrome’, which represents a state where the object density is so high that one collision is enough to generate a cascade effect, leading to further collisions.
  • Cosmic Kid
    2021-03-29 09:51:19 PM
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    bearnard23 Wrote: Yeah, we need to solve this issue because we are now close to ‘Kessler syndrome’, which represents a state where the object density is so high that one collision is enough to generate a cascade effect, leading to further collisions.
    Yeah that's interesting. I looked it up and it is a concern. So has this happened on any level in space yet?
  • bearnard23
    2021-03-30 04:03:48 AM
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    Actually, it's not dangerous for humans on Earth but as I have already mentioned it's rather dangerous for spacecraft and for space companies who's spacecraft can collide and be damaged by space junk and whole mission can be under threat

  • bearnard23
    2021-03-30 04:13:14 AM
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    This project I`ve mentioned before it`s actually cleaning satellite and it`s called The Clearspace-1 satellite, or ‘The Claw’. It represents the first step towards a clean space environment by being the first space debris removal dedicated mission.
    skyrora.com/blog/uk-space-news
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