Post by Odysseus on Apr 28, 2024 0:13:07 GMT
A satellite operated by Japanese company Astroscale has chased down a 15 year-old piece of space junk and taken an up-close image of it.
The object is a discarded rocket segment that's about 11m by 4m (36ft by 15ft), with a mass of three tonnes.
It's the first time anyone has managed to rendezvous with so big a piece of space debris.
Astroscale is developing a business that would offer to remove others' redundant hardware from orbit. ...
The object is a discarded rocket segment that's about 11m by 4m (36ft by 15ft), with a mass of three tonnes.
It's the first time anyone has managed to rendezvous with so big a piece of space debris.
Astroscale is developing a business that would offer to remove others' redundant hardware from orbit. ...