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The European Space Agency Is Going to Use a Giant Claw to Grab Space Junk – PCMag AU
ESA will launch the first active space debris removal mission in 2025.
(Photo via European Space Agency/ClearSpace SA)
The European Space Agency, in partnership with Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA, will launch the first active space debris removal mission in 2025.
ESA inked an 86 million ($103 million) deal to purchase the unique service, which, in five years, will capture the upper part of a Vespa (Vega Secondary Payload Adapter) from Europe’s Vega launcher.
Following the 2013 Vega flight, Vespa was left in what ESA called a low-Earth-orbit “gradual disposal unit,”…
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