Preventing, Mitigating and Recovering from a Kessler Syndrome

The European Space Agency and ClearSpace of Switzerland are targeting 2026 for a debris removal mission, in which a long-discarded payload adapter, at right in this illustration, will be grappled by a ClearSpace-made spacecraft equipped with an ESA-developed robotic arm. A Kessler Syndrome cascade is something that would play out over the course of decades … Read more