Europe is sending a robot to clean up space. Why is the junk there in the first place?
Our orbit is filled with garbage, including chunks of dead satellites, discarded rockets, and paint flecks that have fallen off them. The mission, named ClearSpace-1, will take the first step in tidying up this extraterrestrial wasteland, according to the European Space Agency .A four-armed robot, developed by Swiss startup ClearSpace, will latch onto debris before diving back down to Earth, where both machine and junk will"burn up in the atmosphere," according to the ESA.
Hide Caption 1 of 9 Photos: Cleaning up space debrisSpace net – The nets will attempt to capture some of the 7,000 tons of estimated space junk orbiting the planet.Hide Caption 2 of 9 Photos: Cleaning up space debrisRobotic arm – Another potential solution being explored by the ESA is the use of a robotic arm.
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