Special space collection tool will be launched in 2025

ClearSpace-1, a garbage collection tool that will use the "Pac-Man system" to capture and clean hazardous space waste, has now been commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2025. .

ClearSpace-1 will be the first spacecraft to target real junk space debris, including debris remaining in orbit after decades of mission. The spacecraft also has another goal of establishing a new market for orbit services, as well as removing debris in the general trend of opening space flights on a private perspective.

Garbage collection is not a simple problem.

In fact, in the past there was the RemoveDEBRIS spacecraft, which was launched to the International Space Station in 2018. This spacecraft was tasked with collecting VESPA, the 120 kg weigh converter was removed on the fund. director of Vega rocket launch in 2013 but not yet completed. Therefore, ClearSpace-1 will use the Pac-Man system to take this portion of the missile, said Muriel Richard-Noca, project manager for the mission.

Although the mission was approved by ESA, ClearSpace is essentially a commercial venture formed by space debris experts at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. This is not the only company currently interested in the task of clearing space. Astroscale, a Japanese company, is also on its way to testing the collection and disposal of 20 kg fake space junk next year.

ESA Director General Jan Worner said that the current situation of waste in orbit could not allow to continue, ESA will support these new essential commercial services in the future.

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