{"id":247067,"date":"2023-09-01T10:25:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=304968"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:20:35","slug":"this-is-nasas-original-idea-to-dispose-of-space-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-is-nasas-original-idea-to-dispose-of-space-junk\/","title":{"rendered":"This is NASA’s original idea to get rid of space debris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Around the planet Earth <\/strong>orbit the Moon<\/strong>, two space stations, thousands of space satellites and, above all, a lot (but a lot) of space debris<\/strong>. A serious problem for us, since this debris not only runs the risk of falling to Earth<\/a><\/strong> at any given moment, but can also collide with functioning satellites.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Now, one company wants to make it as easy as possible to collect space debris, an arduous and expensive task so far. NASA <\/strong>has awarded <\/strong>space company TransAstra <\/a><\/strong>an $850,000 <\/strong>contract to build a special type of inflatable bag that could be used to collect space debris and recycle it later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally, the bag was created for the Asteroid Redirect Mission <\/a><\/strong>to collect a multi-ton rock from a near-Earth asteroid. Some time later, TransAstra came up with the idea of reusing this technology to collect and clean up the space debris around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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