Harpoon successfully captures space debris(surrey.ac.uk)
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Harpoon successfully captures space debris
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/harpoon-successfully-captures-space-debris
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Penetrating debris? Won't this potentially create smaller debris moving at higher velocity? A net capturing the debris is safer.
... after writing that, found this:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17878218/space-junk-remov...
This was in Feb, FYI. We covered it in Orbital Index: http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2019-02-26-archive-Issue-1/
Check out http://stuffin.space/ for a visualization of current debris. (Note: it works best on Firefox or Safari. Chrome doesn’t display the point cloud on some platforms.)
Check out http://stuffin.space/ for a visualization of current debris. (Note: it works best on Firefox or Safari. Chrome doesn’t display the point cloud on some platforms.)
Can we all take a moment to appreciate how freaking awesome Chris Burgess's job title was for this mission? Harpoon Lead Engineer