TechnologyRescuing satellites is harder than it looks – a growing space junk problem will make doing so more important
An illustration of the plan for the European Space Agency's ClearSpace mission, where a servicing spacecraft will deorbit an ESA satellite. ClearSpace/ESA, CC BY-NCA commercial robotic spacecraft called LINK launched on an emergency mission to save NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been slowly falling toward Earth, on July…
