Harpoon successfully captures space debris (surrey.ac.uk)

This was in Feb, FYI. We covered it in Orbital Index: http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2019-02-26-archive-Issue-1/

Check out http://stuffin.space/ for a visualization of current debris. (Note: it works best on Firefox or Safari. Chrome doesn’t display the point cloud on some platforms.)

Can we all take a moment to appreciate how freaking awesome Chris Burgess's job title was for this mission? Harpoon Lead Engineer

Penetrating debris? Won't this potentially create smaller debris moving at higher velocity? A net capturing the debris is safer. ... after writing that, found this: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17878218/space-junk-remov...