By Madeline Durrett
As the number of objects in low Earth orbit continues to rise, keeping the environment sustainable is becoming a priority for the space industry. But the same technologies aimed at capturing dangerous debris could ultimately enable lucrative new ventures in asteroid mining.
TransAstra is trapping debris and targeting asteroids with a tool called “Capture Bags,” inflatable technologies composed of soft engineering materials designed to capture large debris or even asteroids in orbit.
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