Harpoon successfully captures space debris

Posted by Tomte on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @01:47PM
from the surrey.ac.uk dept.

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/harpoon-successfully-captures-space-debris

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Re:Harpoon successfully captures space debris by tectonic on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @02:47PM (#20509147)

This was in Feb, FYI. We covered it in Orbital Index: http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2019-02-26-archive-Issue-1/

Check out http://stuffin.space/ for a visualization of current debris. (Note: it works best on Firefox or Safari. Chrome doesn’t display the point cloud on some platforms.)

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Re:Harpoon successfully captures space debris by Sinbe on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @06:52AM (#20513884)

Penetrating debris? Won't this potentially create smaller debris moving at higher velocity? A net capturing the debris is safer. ... after writing that, found this: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17878218/space-junk-remov...

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Re:Harpoon successfully captures space debris by farisjarrah on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @03:54PM (#20509684)

Can we all take a moment to appreciate how freaking awesome Chris Burgess's job title was for this mission? Harpoon Lead Engineer

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