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Showing posts with label Earth orbit. Show all posts

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Scientists have proposed to deal with space debris harpoon


British company Astrium UK proposed to deal with space debris in orbit with a special harpoon.

Debris called fragments of old spacecraft left Earth orbit. Currently, the Joint U.S. Strategic Command monitors 19 thousand objects in orbit, the size of which more than 10 centimeters. According to experts objects with a diameter greater than a centimeter in space on the order of magnitude - more than 600,000. Due to the high velocity (and, consequently, the high kinetic energy), even small pieces of apparatus can be hazardous to spacecraft.