Harpoons, robots and lasers: how to capture space junk and bring it back to Earth
An estimated 130 million objects smaller than 1cm are in orbit. Image: Pexels/Pixabay
Ralph Cooney
Professor Emeritus in Advanced Materials, University of Auckland
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