- NASA awarded TransAstra an $850,000 contract for its concept of Flytrap capture bags.
- Flytrap bags could be built large enough to scoop up space trash the size of a house.
- Space trash is a growing problem that endangers satellites, spaceships, and astronauts’ lives.
In the middle of a space flight, an astronaut heard a massive bang. He looked up and saw a piece of space junk embedded in the window of the shuttle.
If the debris had been bigger, it could have blown out the window, and the crew would have all died, the astronaut told Joel C. Sercel, the founder and CEO of TransAstra.
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