{"id":178383,"date":"2021-05-12T14:47:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T12:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=178383"},"modified":"2021-05-12T14:47:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T12:47:46","slug":"polish-scientists-working-on-a-space-garbage-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/polish-scientists-working-on-a-space-garbage-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish scientists working on a space garbage truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scientists from the Space Research Center (CBK) of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) are taking part in the creation of a huge gripper that will remove debris\u00a0such as satellites and rocket parts\u00a0from space.\u00a0The device is designed by the Swiss start-up Clear Space on behalf of the European Space Agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The assumption is simple: the gripper placed on the satellite is to catch the selected space debris, then bring it to a low orbit and burn an unused satellite or part of a rocket in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere &#8211; explains J\u0119drzej Baran, project manager at CBK PAN.<\/p>\n<p>The catcher will consist of four three-meter-long arms. Each of the arms has three joints, which enables efficient manoeuvring and gives a greater possibility of catching an object rushing in the orbit. The grapple will be mounted on a 120-kilogram satellite. The first cosmic tests will involve the capture of the Vespa rocket hatch adapter, which has been orbiting the Earth since 2013. They are scheduled for 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the Space Research Center (CBK) of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) are taking part in the creation of a huge gripper that will remove debris\u00a0such as satellites and rocket parts\u00a0from space.\u00a0The device is designed by the Swiss start-up Clear Space on behalf of the European Space Agency. The assumption is simple: the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}