Titanium harpoon passes experiment to help clean up debris orbiting Earth/technologies/industrial-automation-space/b/blog/posts/titanium-harpoon-passes-experiment-to-help-clean-up-debris-orbiting-earthwww.youtube.com/watch A harpoon meant to collect space debris has been tested in space for the first time as part of the space debris removal mission called RemoveDEBRIS. The titanium harpoon developed by Airbus engineers in the U.K. hit the satelli.en-USTelligent Community 12RE: Titanium harpoon passes experiment to help clean up debris orbiting Earthhttps://community.element14.com/technologies/industrial-automation-space/b/blog/posts/titanium-harpoon-passes-experiment-to-help-clean-up-debris-orbiting-earthSat, 23 Feb 2019 10:39:39 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9bc0e665-1e95-4818-819b-b42cac5b38e5dubbie0<p>I like the net idea better. Using a harpoon might get some big bits but it looks likely to create many more tiny fragments.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Dubbie</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=6541&AppID=141&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Titanium harpoon passes experiment to help clean up debris orbiting Earthhttps://community.element14.com/technologies/industrial-automation-space/b/blog/posts/titanium-harpoon-passes-experiment-to-help-clean-up-debris-orbiting-earthThu, 21 Feb 2019 16:54:16 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9bc0e665-1e95-4818-819b-b42cac5b38e5ralphjy0<p>Makes you wonder how safe recreational space flight will be.....</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=6541&AppID=141&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">