The aeronautics company Airbus is currently testing a one-meter long harpoon that they hope to use to catch an abandoned space station called Envisat and pull it back to Earth. This particular proposal aims to develop a technology capable of dealing with the rising problem of space debris. “If we can design a harpoon that can cope with Envisat, then it should be able to cope with all other types of spacecraft including the many rocket upper-stages that remain in orbit,” project engineer Alastair...
from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/airbus-wants-to-harpoon-a-satellite-and-bring-it-back-to-earth
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