The 'janitor satellite' that cleans up space junk (The Week)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Week - Over 500,000 pieces of dangerous debris are flying around Earth, but a new initiative could help reduce the threatSwiss scientists have come up with a creative way to clean up the debris that's threatening various countries' efforts in space: Send out a janitor of sorts. The concept, CleanSpace One, is a remote clean-up satellite expected to see space duty in the next five years. Here, a brief guide to the project, which is currently being developed at the Swiss Space Center in the Federal Institute for Technology:

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