Tackling Space Junk with a High-Tech Harpoon and Net

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Space has a junk problem. ​Roughly 100 million pieces of debris larger than a millimeter -- ranging from defunct satellites to astronauts' gloves -- are orbiting the Earth. But the U.K.’s Surrey Space Centre is sending into space RemoveDebris, a device which will test what it hopes is a cost-effective solution for the removal of space junk. WSJ’s Dipti Kapadia reports. Photo: Surrey Space Centre

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I thought I was the only one worried about space junk

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Cool if it caught an alien space ship, maybe that's the plan to fish for aliens. It could happen! Maybe by accident. 😉

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