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Germany develops space street-sweeper

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Borrmann, CorneliaApril 24, 2013

Space trash - discarded satellites and broken relics of space travel - has become a serious problem, clogging up satellite orbits around the earth. Now Germany's space agency is developing a robotic garbageman to clean those orbital paths up.

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