The UK Space Agency has launched a £75.6 million tender for the country’s first mission to actively remove dangerous space debris from orbit. This ambitious project aims to tackle the growing problem of space junk by capturing and safely removing two defunct UK-licensed satellites from low Earth orbit by 2028. The Growing Space Junk Problem Space around Earth has become increasingly crowded with human-made objects. There are currently more than 54,000 tracked objects larger than 10cm orbiting Earth, along with an estimated 140 million fragments smaller than 1cm. Even tiny pieces of debris can cause serious damage to functioning satellites … Continue reading UK’s £75.6M Mission to Clean Up Dangerous Space Debris by 2028