Technology thousands of years old has been overhauled to capture threats to space hardware. <\/p>\n
Space junk poses a serious threat, particularly to humans in space whether in the International Space Station, space shuttles, or other spacecraft. <\/p>\n
The debris also poses a threat to satellites, which fulfill a critical role for militaries, governments, and businesses. Satellites, for example, help provide television, weather data, phone services and GPS navigation to the public. <\/p>\n
The only way to protect current and future missions, as well as the satellites essential to everyday life, is to remove threats lurking in space. <\/p>\n
The solution? Fishing. Recent tests for space age space nets by the European Space Agency have proved very successful. <\/p>\n
While fishing nets have been in use for several thousand years, space nets take this this ancient piece of technology to a whole new level. <\/p>\n
The hope is that nets could be deployed to capture and remove space threats. <\/p>\n
The threat <\/p>\n
Earth is entirely surrounded by a halo of junk in space. Space debris can be natural, like meteroids, or can be manmade. <\/p>\n
There are more than half a million pieces of debris and, according to NASA calculations, at least 17, 000 trackable objects larger than a coffee cup. <\/p>\n
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