There’s an awful lot of junk floating around in space, with recent estimates suggesting there could be more than 25,000 objects in orbit around the Earth right now. We don’t …
Tokyo-based Astroscale Japan is a company attempting to deal with the growing problem of floating space garbage. As part of that mission, it recently completed a close fly-by of a …
A discarded rocket upper stage floating around Earth. | Astroscale A satellite designed to eliminate the increasing amount of space junk orbiting the Earth has homed in on a 36-foot …
Japanese startup Astroscale Holdings said Monday that it has successfully launched a satellite to survey the state of a jettisoned rocket section in orbit in space, in what it calls …