Within 48 hours of their first meeting at the SmallSat Symposium, Aurora Propulsion Technologies signed a contract to send a cubesat on a Momentus Vigoride mission. Credit: SpaceNews/Debra Werner ...

An experimental mission to test tether-based orbital debris cleanup method with "Terminator Tape" is slated to launch this fall to test the deorbit performance of two satellites. The Millennium Space ...

Japanese space scientists are set to trial a tether they hope will help pull junk out of orbit around Earth, clearing up tonnes of planetary clutter, they said Thursday. Researchers at The Japan ...