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Earth’s orbit is becoming something of a teenager’s bedroom: There’s junk scattered about and no real plan to clean it up any time soon. The critical difference? The consequences of space junk go well beyond pests attracted by crumbs or the odor of unwashed laundry.
For decades, experts have been warning about the rise of space junk in Earth’s orbit. In the Space Age, there have been thousands of rocket and satellite launches, and not everything that goes up into orbit comes back down. (And as the Chinese space program recently reminded us, falling debris can also be concerning if improperly handled.) Now, thousands of dead satellites and thousands more small pieces of junk remain circling Earth all of which pose a significant threat to space infrastructure and could inadvertently take down satellite arrays if poorly managed.
Every
space mission launched from Earth often leaves the remains of the spacecraft still floating in space. This could endanger the next mission to
space or even fall to Earth as happened to Chinese-made rockets some time ago.
This condition makes the
Space Agency or
space debris that is floating in
space and the amount is unknown.
Quoted from Space.com,
ESA is collaborating with a Swiss startup called ClearSpace to prepare a mission to clean up
space debris which will be carried out in 2025. An experimental mission called ClearSpace-1 will use a robot.
The robot launched has four arms and on its first mission will attempt to capture the Vega Secondary Payload Adapter (VESa), which was abandoned by the Vega