ClearSpace has developed a spacecraft designed to clean Earth’s orbit by capturing defunct satellites using robotic arms. The company works with the European Space Agency and UK Space Agency to safely deorbit satellites. The mission aims to reduce debris and improve safety.

Most orbital trash is the size of a pencil, not full satellites. Be clear, this isn’t about cleaning up space. It’s about offering different companies essentially an easy eco-washing solution to put on their ITU application. Be real.

Great, we’ve handled the easy 5%, the big, trackable lumps. What about the other 95%? The button and pencil sized debris that’s impossible to track and is the actual threat to personnel and vehicles in orbit.

Just build a satellite with a huge laser and blow old satellites to pieces with said laser 🤷🏼‍♂️

About time we clean up our mess

Europe post 2014 has been comically pathetic. I understand why they distract themselves with US politics so much, its their attempt to keep the spotlight off this humiliation ritual their entire continent is collectively going through. No innovation, just cringe vanity projects

colossal waste of money. thats such an expensive way to clear trash when its literally the most overblown non issue that exists.

Just what the Dr ordered

Nobody thought it could become a space weapon? Before the war even begins, just capture all the enemy’s satellites and leave them totally blind.

Need to hold more companies accountable for sending so much shit into space and not cleaning it up I just know it’s going to be a nightmare to clean up all the starlink satellites when they inevitably decide they need to send more modern ones into orbit

Seen it already.

@MatthewRyanCase @MadHattter___ I wonder if this will take care of the Artemis toilet emergency ejection into space?

Even in space Europeans have to put tax money to clean others country trash... space paper straws

the reason most people don't talk about this is that they think it's someone else's problem, but if we're serious about a sustainable space future, cleaning up our own mess needs to be part of the plan

This is a start. Companies like Clearspace and Astroscale doing good work, however, how we remove smaller debris is the real challenge. Space or even ground based lasers seem most feasible but still seems a long way off

Absolute garbage.

Finally someone's tackling space junk! Those robotic arms are engineering beauty... I've been saying this problem is serious guys. ClearSpace is on it! 🚀

I’ve seen this Bond movie !

Not only debris. lol

@EveOnline Hmmmm... Early Mining drones look-alike. Cool :)

Чушь. Они спокойно упадут и сгорят в атмосфере.

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you know you can go down to Home Depot and get 100 pounds of gravel for like $50...

Spiderstar project...

🔥🚀👀

Very cool!

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@Doroni_max Planetes.

Orbit, deorbit, so why named spacecraft?

And went be weaponized at all 🫠

robotic arms hype

These are straight from the game Elite Dangerous

@Moohoodles you seen this ? Hope it goes well good vibes 🌍💚💜🚀 ESA for the win