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Space debris removal – the German approach

Submit on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 22:55

Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are developing an optical observation system with a powerful laser, the pulses from which can detect particles only a few centimetres in diameter and allow determination of their orbits. The concept was tested for the first time in January 2012, in collaboration with the Laser Station in the Austrian city of Graz.

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