Ever since we began sending satellites, shuttles and science
stations into space, we’ve been leaving bits and pieces of our
Earthly technology out there in orbit. As more and more space
missions have launched, and as satellites have been
decommissioned but not brought back to the planet, a continually
growing amount of junk has accumulated and it’s starting to make
Earth’s orbit a dangerous place to be. A transportation design
student named Vaughan Ling has come up with an idea to clean up
all of that space junk that is cluttering up the space around
our little planet. The project is purely an exercise in concept
art, but there is no denying that there is a tangible need for a
machine like this. Ling’s concept would put this huge space
debris collector in low orbit around Earth. It would not only
clean up the dangerous space junk, but also act as a recycling
station for those valuable materials used in space launches.
Ling thinks that space junk recycling could eventually become a
lucrative business for those