European Space Agency to launch ‘space claw’ to clean up junk orbiting Earth – Sports Grind Entertainment

Scientists have come up with an out-of-this-world idea to clean up nearly one million pieces of space junk orbiting Earth.
The European Space Agency will send a suicide robot space claw to clear the atmosphere of cosmic waste by gripping defunct satellites and steer them back into Earths atmosphere, where they would both ignite and safely burn up, according to CNET.
There are an estimated 3,000 dead satellites and 900,000 pieces of small debris orbiting the planet, which could cause a disaster if…

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