People have learned to launch all sorts of things into space - but they do not really know how to get them back. In low Earth orbit, along with thousands of workable satellites, there is a lot of debris: space debris, space debris, debris from higher orbits.
But there are many smaller things. Earlier NASA studied these trifles on the small craters that they leave on the space shuttle, like acne scars.
The founder of the company, Luca Rossetti, is serious about space debris. "There is already a lot of garbage in space," he says;
"Let's be more specific: not in" the whole cosmos, "but in the part that we use for satellites. This space is limited and very valuable, but we have already puzzled it. " Rossettini hopes that his customers will someday be able to attach the D3 as a LEGO to their own spacecraft, and then - voila - to ensure that when the satellites reach the end of their useful life, they will be destroyed.
Currently, D-Orbit is working only to put the D3 on the satellites that have not yet been launched. But in the future, with the help of partners, the company hopes to put the power system on already operating satellites to enable them to die. Perhaps D3 will be able to solve the problem of space debris, at least in part.