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Space clean-up mission is complicated as junk is smashed by more junk [1]

['Jason Weisberger']

Date: 2023-08-24

The European Space Agency's experimental mission to remove a large piece of space junk was interrupted by another piece of space junk smashing their target. Named Clearspace-1, the EU's flying grabber arm is intended to remove large problematic chonks of space debris. Sadly, the density of junk seems to be causing problems, but the mission may still be on.

Space should be happy, it seems like the minute humanity discovers a new place, we start dumping trash or filling it with disease. Near earth orbit is probably a just junkyard because we didn't find anything to kill.

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