We’ll clean-up space junk using sticky foam ‘spiderwebs’ In orbit, says Russian space startup

Published June 16, 2020

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Forbes quotes John L. Crassidis, Samuel P. Capen Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, in a story on a Russian startup that's spraying space junk with polymeric foam that will then sink safely and burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.

“It works on the well-known process of increasing a debris surface area in order to increase its drag, and thus make it re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere and burn up faster,” Crassidis tells Forbes.

Read the story here.