translated from Spanish: Scientists develop “Oscar”, responsible for cleaning the space junk

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World-OSCAR was developed so you trap and remove orbital debris using nets and moorings that will take on board. Cleaning bucket would make it relatively autonomously, with little guidance from controllers on Earth.
 “We say to OSCAR what to do and then have to rely on this,” said in a statement the project leader Kurt Anderson, Professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering from the Instituto Politécnico Rensselaer New York.

Meet OSCaR: Tiny Cubesat Would Clean Up Space Junk https://t.co/38jIwRqa8a pic.twitter.com/GOnp7oCPuv
-SPACE.com (@SPACEdotcom) April 24, 2019

The space junk is a huge problem, and it is getting worse. According to the calculations of the European Space Agency, nearly 129 million fragments of debris are buzzing around the Earth at this time, approximately 34,000 of which have at least four inches (10 centimeters) wide.
“The amount of observed debris is growing faster now the speed that we’re actually putting more objects in space. This is an indication that [las] early stages of the Kessler syndrome may be upon us”, noted Anderson.
Kessler syndrome is called to the discovery in 1978 of NASA Scientist Donald Kessler, who warned that the increase in the concentration of ‘garbage’ in space could lead to that a single impact was enough so that a reaction occurs in string , in such a way that all the satellites were destroyed.
Source: Sputnik

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