New approaches to cleaning up space debris from the ground | Tony Travouillon
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2018-10-30

Travelling at 8 km/second, space debris can cause serious damage to satellites – but proposals to clean it up from space are technologically challenging and likely to be expensive. Tony Travouillon explains how the Australian National University is looking at using lasers to keep track of pieces of debris and intervene to change their trajectory when necessary to avoid collisions.

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