Luo Sheng was attracted by a message when he browsing the global news that day. When he clicked on the content, he couldn't help but laughed in surprise and said to himself: "Oh, Zheng Tao's execution ability is very powerful, and he likes such subordinates."

In fact, Luo Sheng can check it through the internal information system of Xingjian International. He has the highest global authority, but he did not do so, but read the news reports directly.

The news came out just now. The Space Center of the University of Surrey in the UK announced that it had officially reached an in-depth cooperation with Star Arrow International, which invested 22 million euros to support the Remove-Debris, a new space garbage trap led by the University of Surrey, which will be sent to low-Earth orbit for space testing this year.

According to the plan, after introducing the new partner of Star Arrow International, this type of space garbage trap project will take Star Arrow International's recyclable rocket to the "Tiangong-2" space station in April this year, and then eject it to the designated space coordinates for testing.

As humans become more and more frequent and passionate in space exploration activities, the garbage fragments in space orbits they face have become a problem that they have to face, and the problems will become more and more prominent as humans' space activities become more and more frequent.

It can be seen that for those who are interested in making great achievements in the aerospace field, providing solutions to dealing with orbital space waste is a field with broad commercial application prospects in the future.

The ladder project is extremely vast. The "Piloter 1" on high-altitude orbit is not a big problem, but the "Piloter 2" located in low-altitude orbit is different. Its size is too large and it will directly or indirectly lead to the more prominent space safety problems faced.

Space trash has to be disposed of.

At present, there are about 500,000 space wrecks floating near the earth, of which more than 20,000 wrecks with diameters greater than ten centimeters are located in the orbit of the earth.

Most of these debris originated from abandoned satellites and rockets launched over the past seventy years.

Since humans launched the first artificial satellite, countries have launched more than 5,000 satellites, rockets, probes and other spacecraft, and have formed more than 3,000 tons of space garbage flying around the earth orbit.

Moreover, this number is increasing at a rate of 5% every year. It is obvious that in the context of the era of the general trend of human beings moving towards deep space, who can provide solutions to these new problems will inevitably bring rich returns, so more and more people are becoming interested in the problem of dealing with space garbage.

In the past few decades, some solutions have gradually taken shape in order to clean up space garbage, and the Remove-Debris space garbage trap is one of them.

The project was established in 2013, funded by the Borgward Commission to develop the project, aiming to remove space garbage generated by humans in space activities for more than half a century and create a safe space environment for active space vehicles.

However, the progress of this project was not fast, even very slow, and there were two twists and turns in the middle and almost ransacked indefinitely.

The reason is just one word: money!

Two words: No money!

Europe is really out of money, and after the eurozone and Britain have had conflicts, the future of this project has become worrying.

Not to mention that the British Space Agency is going to increase the budget for space exploration, Europeans whose welfare benefits are affected are angrily criticizing that this is wasting money and doing meaningless things, and demanding reductions in funding.

As for the British Space Agency's annual budget of less than 300 million pounds, the Remove-Debris project can only seek more international cooperation if it wants to advance steadily.

In the past few years, in addition to the Surrey Space Center, those who have participated in the project have successively cooperated with research institutions such as Stellenbosch University in South Africa, as well as ten aerospace companies such as Airbus.

Now a new partner, Star Arrow International, has been introduced.

However, Xingjian International is not just a stupid person who only pays money for more money, but also needs to participate deeply and have the right to speak. For example, the so-called international space cooperation money that made Chinese people pay for the money, but did not allow Chinese people to come into contact with core technologies, does not exist in the contemporary era.

At least it is absolutely impossible for Luo Sheng to exist.

Times have changed.

Now the Surrey Space Center is taking the initiative to come to seek Star Arrow International. It is not only because it is short of money, but also because Star Arrow International's "ladder project" is a potential super customer of countless astronauts in the future.

In fact, the Remove-Debris space garbage trap was manufactured two years ago, but due to lack of funds, it has been delayed in sending it to space for testing. There is no real experimental data analysis and relying entirely on brain-based theoretical calculations, so there is no progress in the next research.

The mass of the instrument is about 100 kilograms. From the appearance, it is a cube about 0.75 meters square. In addition to two small satellites used to simulate garbage, it is also equipped with robotic arms for garbage recycling, traction sails and equipment similar to harpoons and fishing nets. It is equipped with external camera arrays, lidar and other sensors to verify the feasibility of garbage recycling in space.

There are also clear plans for the cooperation between Star Arrow International and Surrey Space Center. However, there is no detailed information on this aspect in the news reports, and neither side has disclosed more details for the time being, but it will definitely be announced to the public in the future.

Luo Sheng closed the news page and asked, "Xiao Na, what are the plans for Remove-Debris?"

Xiaona responded in seconds: "After launching the Remove-Debris into a predetermined orbit, four test tasks will be carried out. During the first test, the Remove-Debris will release a small satellite and then launch a capture net to it after it flew to about seven meters away."

"The second test will release a second small satellite, which targets it to test lidar and navigation systems."

"In the third test, Remove-Debris spread the robotic arm with a length of 5.15 meters and fired a harpoon toward a target of 0.01 meters square meters at the top of the robotic arm."

"In the fourth test, the traction sail would drag the entire catcher and the captured objects toward the earth and eventually burn out in the atmosphere."

Hearing this, Luo Sheng couldn't help but drag his chin into a state of thinking with one hand, and said to himself: "The solution provided by the Remove-Debris space garbage trap can only be valuable for space garbage of larger size and mass, and small debris obviously cannot."

Judging from the Remove-Debris test process, this solution is not low, and it is okay to deal with large space waste debris. If you have a small level, use this solution is like an anti-aircraft gun to kill mosquitoes, which is not cost-effective.

Luo Sheng said: "Xiao Na, have you ever collected any providers of space debris waste disposal solutions for less than 10 cm?"

Five or six hundred thousand fast debris flying everywhere in space orbit, of which more than 20,000 pieces with diameters greater than 10 cm are more than 20,000. These large pieces of debris can be processed with the Remove-Debris space garbage trap, but the remaining hundreds of thousands of smaller pieces are obviously not good.

The more headache is the small fragments. Space garbage runs at a speed of 6,000 to 7,000 meters per second in space. Because the relative speed is very high, the potential harm is extremely great. The impact ability of a space garbage weighing only 10 grams is equivalent to the energy generated by head-on collisions between two cars running at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour.

For the "Pioneer 2" space station running in low orbit, the threat of small debris is huge. If these space debris are not cleared, the threat of potential series of impact events will be difficult to remove.
Chapter completed!