{"id":122552,"date":"2019-12-09T14:35:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T13:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/09\/european-space-agency-to-launch-space-debris-collector-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T14:35:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T13:35:58","slug":"european-space-agency-to-launch-space-debris-collector-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=122552","title":{"rendered":"European Space Agency to launch space debris collector in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robotic junk collector will be first mission to remove item of debris from orbitA four-armed robotic junk collector will be launched into space by the European Space Agency in what it says will be the first mission to remove an item of debris from orbit.The ClearSpace-1 mission, scheduled for launch in 2025, will cost \u20ac120m and will grab a single piece of junk. But the agency hopes the mission will pave the way for a wide-reaching clear-up operation, with Esa\u2019s director general calling for new rules that would compel those who launch satellites to take responsibility for removing them from orbit once they are retired from use. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2019\/dec\/09\/european-space-agency-to-launch-clearspace-1-space-debris-collector-in-2025\" target=\"_blank\">European Space Agency to launch space debris collector in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robotic junk collector will be first mission to remove item of debris from orbitA four-armed robotic junk collector will be launched into space by the European Space Agency in what it says will be the first mission to remove an item of debris from orbit.The ClearSpace-1 mission, scheduled for launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}