Gen. Thompson Says Space Force Supports Paying Commercial Companies to Remove Orbital Debris Written 17 March 2021
Computer-generated depiction of space debris as could be seen from high Earth orbit. | Credit: NASA; Wikipedia; Public Domain
Space News reports that US Space Force Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David Thompson “said it would make sense for the government to pay companies to clean up space junk if such services existed.” Orbital debris “represents a risk to spacecraft and to safe operations in space, Thompson said March 16 in an interview with national security analyst John Nagl, of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.” Thompson said, “The more we can depend on commercial space for routine activities like transportation and debris removal, the more we can focus on national security.”
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