A Giant Harpoon Could Be Used To Drag Space Junk Back To Earth

A giant space harpoon that captures old or rogue satellites could be the answer to our planet’s growing space junk crisis.With no way to currently manage all the 500,000+ bits of trash that are orbiting our planet engineers from Airbus UK in Stevenage developed the harpoon as a solution to the crisis.Fired from a spacecraft, the harpoon would skewer the piece of junk and then the spacecraft would physically drag it back down into the atmosphere where it would burn up.There are around 500,0