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Tiny Astroscale satellite will test space junk cleanup tech with magnets – Space.com
The commercial satellite ELSA-d is in orbit now. Its days are numbered.
Astroscale just launched the first commercial space junk
cleanup mission designed to locate and retrieve used satellites and other debris orbiting Earth.
The Japan-based company’s End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission lifted off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 22. It was among the 38 payloads that were carried into space by a Soyuz rocket as part of the first all-commercial rideshare mission
for Russian company GK Launch Services.
The ELSA-d…
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