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The Verge on 2018-09-19 18:24

Satellite uses giant net to practice capturing space junk

A British satellite, designed to test out ways to clean up debris in space, just successfully ensnared a simulated piece of junk in orbit using a big ...

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Guglielmo Aglietti

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