Scientists fire harpoon on mission to eradicate space junk

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It's technology based on the techniques of the whale hunters, but this could be the solution for cleaning up the tonnes of space junk orbiting the Earth.

 

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There doesn't seem any reason why orbiting space things couldn't exist - although the difficulties of getting them into space aren't to be underestimated. There are airplanes which can go up extremely high, but satellites can go up that high and can not stay up for some reason.

Scientists cleaning up rubbish left behind from scientist.

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