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.
