ESA blows up batteries to combat space debris

It what seems like a paradox, ESA engineers have been blowing up batteries in hopes of cleaning up space debris. In a series of severe "abuse" tests at the test bunkers of France's Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), lithium-ion batteries designed for space satellites were tortured as part of the Clean Space initiative's three-year project to better understand catastrophic battery failures and prevent battery explosions in derelict spacecraft.

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Category: Space

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• Debris
• ESA
• Lithium-ion
• Satellite

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