Ep 6. How a space harpoon could deal with space junk

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DARK: Chats About Space

James Wilkins

8 episodes

5 days ago

Space is kind of a big deal, right? In fact it's the biggest thing there is, unless we're part of a multi-verse in which case it's not the biggest thing at all. But relatively speaking, it's still mind bogglingly huge. For that reason, I thought it deserved it's own podcast where each episode I might talk to different people about space - authors, astro-biologists, astro-physicists, presenters, olfactory experts (it'll make sense when you hear the episode.)

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Ep 6. How a space harpoon could deal with space junk

DARK: Chats About Space

37 minutes 28 seconds

6 years ago

Ep 6. How a space harpoon could deal with space junk

There's currently about 8,000 tonnes of space debris orbiting planet earth and there are a number of reasons why this is a problem that needs to be dealt with swiftly. I spoke to Richard Duke of the Surrey Space centre who landed in the international news headlines last months with their REMOVE DEBRIS satellite and its space harpoon and net. Richard tells us about the satellite's development with Airbus and how Elon Musk and the ISS astronauts helped get the satellite into orbit for it's groundbreaking first in-orbit test.

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