A New Mission Will Grab Dead Satellites and Push Them Into the Atmosphere to Burn Up
This mission, ELSA-M, is a follow-up on the proof of concept ELSA-D mission that was launched in 2021 and successfully rendezvoused with a client's satellite.
A challenge to this company going forward I see is that their interceptor requires a proprietary plate of their design to already have been affixed to the target satellite. I just don't see how this gets wide adoption enough to help meet their lofty preventing Kessler syndrome rhetoric.
https://www.universetoday.com/162029/a-new-mission-will-grab-dead-satellites-and-push-them-into-the-atmosphere-to-burn-up/Open linkView original on beehaw.org
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