Thursday, 25 April 2019

OSCaR spacecraft is designed to gather garbage

An illustration of OSCaR netting a piece of space junk

Remember the garbage-collecting Oscar the Grouch, from Sesame Street? Well, an orbital-debris-gathering spacecraft now bears his name. Known as OSCaR (for "Obsolete Spacecraft Capture and Removal"), the semi-autonomous craft is currently being developed at New York's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2IHqhlE

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