Spain Will Participate in European Space Debris Removal Missions

More than 140 million space debris objects orbit in space around the Earth, most of them fragments of the different launches that humans have been carrying out for decades, with a small percentage belonging to satellites.Cleaning objects from the Earth sky and reaching the zero-waste target is one of the objectives proposed by the European Space Agency (ESA) that has just confirmed collaboration with the Spanish Space Agency (ESA) on a space mis…

The European Space Agency and the Spanish Space Agency (ESA) have confirmed their intention to collaborate in the demonstration mission in orbit called Capture Payload Bay (CAT), which will test a standardized coupling interface that will simplify satellite withdrawal operations, as reported by ESA.