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Swiss startup to clear space of orbiting debris

FRANCE24, 02 Dec 2020
The European Space Agency has signed a deal to clean up space junk. Some 3000 defunct satellites, and one million pieces of debris continually orbit the Earth, posing a potentially catastrophic risk to spacecraft.

The technology developed with Swiss startup ClearSpace will use a space claw to collect waste and steer it back into the Earth’s atmosphere.

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