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The ESA wants to clean up space junk with a giant, rocket-powered claw – Digital Trends
Remember those arcade grabbing machines, forever immortalized in Toy Story as the godlike entity known as “The Claw”? This is the same — but way bigger.
Remember those arcade grabbing machines, forever immortalized in Toy Story as the godlike entity known as The Claw? Well, a much larger version of that same concept could soon be shot into orbit and used to clean up space junk — referring to the hundreds of thousands of pieces of space debris which orbit the Earth at unimaginable speeds, threatening to cause catastrophic damage to any satellite or spaceship they might collide with.
That, in essence, is the idea behind a new project sponsored by…
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