Video: The project to manufacture space hook TB to remove garbage in space
Experts plan to use tuberculosis, giant nets and some other measures to handle garbage surrounding the Earth.
Airbus is building a space hook used to pull old satellites and bring them back to Earth's atmosphere for incineration. A miniature version will be tested in the "RemoveDEBRIS" task.
Simulate a giant garbage net.
Scientists will also test a giant grid to clear cosmic trash, and a sail can take cosmic garbage out of orbit.
Surrey Space Center is expected to perform RemoveDEBRIS this year with SpaceX missiles.
Airbus is also developing a larger version of the tuberculosis that can pull down the European Space Agency's (ESA) Envisat satellite. The satellite is about the same size as a bus, which stopped operating in 2012.
Update 15 December 2018
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