Space Debris is a growing concern as our societies become more and more reliant on the technological and communication advances provided by the growing satellite infrastructure in orbit. This particular upper stage component is simple in shape and its robust architecture makes it a perfect test case for ClearSpace-1, which will use four robotic arms to capture and dragged it into a decaying orbit causing it to burn up in the atmosphere, as will the ClearSpace-1 craft.
The Payload Adapter has been chosen as the first target due to its size and mass which is similar to many of the small satellites that the project hopes to remove in the coming years. With a mass of 100kg, it now floats in an 800 km by 660 km altitude orbit. The first target for the ClearSpace-1 mission will be the Payload Adapter a discarded structure that formed the upper stage of the ESA’s Vega launcher in 2013. It shows a 7 mm-diameter circular chip that was gouged out of a window by a paint flake or small metal fragment estimated to be less than a few thousandths of a millimetres across. On the right is a photo taken by British astronaut Tim Peake aboard the International Space Station in 2016. In the coming years the number of satellites will increase by an order of magnitude, with multiple mega-constellations made up of hundreds or even thousands of satellites planned for low Earth orbit to deliver wide-coverage, low-latency telecommunications and monitoring services.” Today we have nearly 2000 live satellites in space and more than 3000 failed ones. Luc Piguet, founder and CEO of ClearSpace commented: “The space debris issue is more pressing than ever before. The contract was awarded via a competitive process to the startup established by a team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, an institute that specialises in space engineering. Tasked by the European Space Agency (ESA), ClearSpace expects to remove the first pieces of space junk by 2025.
Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov, who are now on board the ISS, also took pictures in it.Īfter the departure of the actress, director and astronaut Nowitzki, in addition to Dubrov and Shkaplerov, NASA astronauts Mark Vande High, Shane Kimbrow and Megan McCarter, the astronaut from the European Space Agency Toma Peske and the astronaut from Japan astronaut remain on the ISS.Swiss startup ClearSpace has been awarded the world’s first contract to remove space debris – such as defunct satellites and abandoned rocket stages – from the planet’s orbit, in order to avoid a calamitous cascading collision event that could render space inaccessible. The film is a joint production of Roscosmos, Channel One and Yellow Studio, Black and White. Novitsky is in the role of the astronaut in need of urgent intervention. At its center is a female surgeon who goes aboard the ISS to save the life of an astronaut. Shipenko's film starring 37-year-old Peresild is called "Challenge". The 38-year-old Shipenko overtook a competitive project of the Americans with his " space" film project, in which Tom Cruise was to participate. According to the first reports of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the passengers are fine. The landing capsule of the Russian ship Soyuz MS-18, with which the actress Yulia Peresild, the director Klim Shipenko and the cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky were traveling from the ISS, landed this morning at 4.36 am Greenwich in the Kazakh steppe.
The Russian actress and the Russian director, who stayed aboard the International Space Station for 12 days to shoot the first film in space, returned safely to Earth, world agencies reported.