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AI Battles the Bane of Space Junk

Photos from low Earth orbit (LEO) are often strikingly beautiful. But what they typically fail to capture is the tens of thousands of debris pieces, or “space junk,” that orbit around Earth’s face like hungry mosquitoes—and threaten to hit satellites and other orbiting assets with enough force to be destructive.…
bubmag
July 1, 2023
Space Debris

Removing Space Debris and Recovering and Reusing Satellites

There are several companies working to develop solutions for space debris and some are working on refueling, recovering and reusing satellites. Outpost is working to make satellites re-usable. They plan to build in a heatshield (shown above) that would enable a satellite to return to earth. After re-entry, they want…
bubmag
June 23, 2023
Space Debris

KMI advertises prices for debris removal

COLORADO SPRINGS – It would cost a little under $4 million to retrieve the 24-kilogram Thor Altair rocket body from low-Earth orbit. The price tag for nabbing NASA’s defunct Cosmic Background Explorer, weighing in at 2245 kilograms, is $62.5 million, according to a deck of cards Kall Morris Inc. handed…
bubmag
April 24, 2023