former satellites continue to encumber the land periphery. These machines represent a real danger to satellites in working condition that are essential for the proper functioning of services on Earth. As part of a European program, aerospace division of Airbus will create a module to rid the Earth’s orbit these become useless and troublesome satellites.
Airbus will clean Earth orbit
Airbus, at the head of a consortium of 10 companies, is responsible for this project, called “Teser” for Technology for Self-Removal of Spacecraft. The purpose of this program is to put satellites out of service on an “orbit Parking” beyond 36,000 km altitude, in order to leave space for yet functional satellites and avoid a collision that would not no effect on Earth. The former satellites would then be put in passive mode and would represent no danger.
The manufacturer and the participating companies in the project have had the idea to design a module that would be placed on the satellite used for deorbit. This module would be “ ultra reliable and low-cost “.
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If the module solution proved ineffective, the group could then consider to curb the race obsolete satellites to make them leave their orbit and lower until they disintegrate as they enter the Earth’s atmosphere. To carry out this project Teser, the company signed a grant agreement amounting to 2.8 million euros until 2018.
The consortium led by Airbus is not the only one working on a trash can in space, the Japanese space agency is developing a spaceship capable of recovering various debris that clog the Earth periphery, which would then be destroyed by penetrating the atmosphere of the Earth.
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