The European Space Agency ESA is planning a specialized capture mechanism to remove the space junk and pull down the abandoned satellites to burn up in atmosphere.
The e DeOrbit Mission, which is the ESA's Clean Space initiative, is designed to capture an ESA owned satellite which is now in low earth orbit around the Earth but not working at present. If every thing goes well, the capture mechanism - like a robotic arm, net or a harpoon - will latch on to the target in the year 2023 and bring it back to a place where it can safely burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
But we do not know whether this kind of plan works or not and it is not an easy task. There are several challenges that ESA scientists have to face. They have to identify the fast moving target, find a safe and secure way to chase it down and capture it and synchronize the orbital paths with the satellite to bring it down into our Atmosphere in a controlled manner. .
Even though the concept is straight forward, the implementation may be difflcult - a De Orbit will be like nothing ESA has ever attempted before. The chaser satellite needs extremely sophisticated guidance, navigation and control to synchronize the motion of the target and then capture it.
For more details please visit : http://www.space.com/33414-space-junk-cleaning-satellite-mission-2023.html
The e DeOrbit Mission, which is the ESA's Clean Space initiative, is designed to capture an ESA owned satellite which is now in low earth orbit around the Earth but not working at present. If every thing goes well, the capture mechanism - like a robotic arm, net or a harpoon - will latch on to the target in the year 2023 and bring it back to a place where it can safely burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
But we do not know whether this kind of plan works or not and it is not an easy task. There are several challenges that ESA scientists have to face. They have to identify the fast moving target, find a safe and secure way to chase it down and capture it and synchronize the orbital paths with the satellite to bring it down into our Atmosphere in a controlled manner. .
Even though the concept is straight forward, the implementation may be difflcult - a De Orbit will be like nothing ESA has ever attempted before. The chaser satellite needs extremely sophisticated guidance, navigation and control to synchronize the motion of the target and then capture it.
For more details please visit : http://www.space.com/33414-space-junk-cleaning-satellite-mission-2023.html
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