How to clean waste in orbit?

Even 800 kilometers above our heads, in space, debris is accumulating. Satellites, rockets and pieces of debris from 60 years of space exploration increase the risk of floating and colliding in orbit. Last week, ISS with capsule Thomas Beskett. On the way to, an object was placed in its path. NASA Operations Center then warns crew.

“There were micro impacts at the station, very small things, big streams are in other orbits, they are monitored on the ground. We focus on that and try not to be productive,” he said. Astronaut Thomas Baskett explains. In Toulouse (Hot-Coron), researchers take turns day and night to monitor debris, studying their trajectories, speed and maneuvers to avoid collisions with satellites. How to clean the space? Engineers imagine techniques for capturing its objects that have become uncontrollable.