Spacecraft Could Clean Up Trash Orbiting Earth Astronomy and Astrophysics 

Spacecraft Could Clean Up Trash Orbiting Earth

There is a lot of trash orbiting earth. More than 170 million pieces and counting, in fact. The pieces of trash range from tiny bits of metal to entire satellites no longer in use. By Katherine Lindemann Human activity in space has left behind a lot of trash orbiting earth, from tiny bits of metal to entire satellites no longer in use. This debris poses a danger to new and ongoing missions. Inna Sharf is an aeronautical engineer at McGill University and is working on ways to remove it from…

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