15 February 2019
RemoveDEBRIS successfully harpoons target in space
... harpoon was fired at 20 metres/sec to penetrate a target held on a 1.5 metre boom deployed from the main RemoveDEBRIS spacecraft; a test it completed successfully when the small head of the harpoon convincingly punched a hole through the metal ...
04 April 2018
A storm hunter and space junk collector on its way to the ISS
... surrounding our planet. Built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) with contributions from across Europe, the RemoveDebris spacecraft will be deployed by astronauts from the ISS to test four orbital debris technologies using a pair of target...
21 September 2018
Net to capture space junk passes debut debris collection
...SSTL and Chairman of the Surrey Space Centre, added “RemoveDEBRIS is an exciting and highly innovative mission that has ...forward to discovering how all four experiments on board the spacecraft perform over the next few months, and I sincerely hope...
