Smart solutions sought to make orbital traffic

[garetetter]

A mission will launch to space this weekend that aims to demonstrate commercial technology to remove orbital debris, such as a defunct satellite.
The showcase is being staged by the Astroscale company and will be run from an operations centre in the UK.
With more and more satellites being launched every year, there is now an imperative to try to keep orbits above the Earth clear of old junk.
And this ought to drive a vibrant market for debris removal services.
“We are entering an age of satellite constellations and some of these spacecraft could fail in orbit — and that would be a serious issue,” said John Auburn, Astroscale’s UK managing director.
“If they fail at very low altitudes, they’ll come back down on their own; but if satellites fail at 1,200–1,300km in altitude — they’ll be up there for centuries with the risk that they start to break up, collide with other objects and make the debris situation much, much worse.”
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The servicer spacecraft weighs just under 200kg
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image captionThe servicer spacecraft weighs just under 200kg
The End-of-Life Service by Astroscale demonstration (Elsa-d) mission consists of two spacecraft: a 175kg “servicer” and a 17kg “client”.
They’ll go up together on a Soyuz rocket on Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and, once in orbit, separate to play a repeating game of cat and mouse.