Japan's Astroscale has a new robot tug to clean up space junk. Here's how it works (video)

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Rendezvous, retrograde burn and repeat — Astroscale's ELSA-M will be capable of deorbiting multiple satellites per mission.

Astroscale's new video depicts the newer ESLA-M's deorbiting process. First, the spacecraft conducts a visual inspection of a rendered client satellite before performing alignment and docking maneuvers.

then uses its thrusters to lower the client satellite's orbit toward an atmospheric trajectory, where it safely disintegrates during reentry. With the client satellite bound on a destructive course, ESLA-M then detaches and corrects its own orbit for rendezvous with its next target. the release of its Generation 2 Docking Plate, which Astroscale says has an on-orbit lifespan of over 15 years.

 

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