Tackling Space Junk with a High-Tech Harpoon and Net

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Space has a junk problem. ​Roughly 100 million pieces of debris larger than a millimeter -- ranging from defunct satellites to astronauts' gloves -- are orbiting the Earth. But the U.K.’s Surrey Space Centre is sending into space RemoveDebris, a device which will test what it hopes is a cost-effective solution for the removal of space junk. WSJ’s Dipti Kapadia reports. Photo: Surrey Space Centre Don’t miss a WSJ video, subscribe here: http://bit.ly/14Q81Xy More from the Wall Street Journal: Visit WSJ.com: http://www.wsj.com Visit the WSJ Video Center: https://wsj.com/video On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/wsj/videos/ On Twitter: https://twitter.com/WSJ On Snapchat: https://on.wsj.com/2ratjSM

Published 2018-01-12 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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