Researchers Want A Robotic Space Cleaner To Digest Debris And Turn It Into Fuel
by The Daily Eye Team December 7 2015, 2:45 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 18 secsNow in an Arxiv paper reported on by the MIT Technology Review, researchers from China have proposed a design for a space engine that can gobble up space junk and turn it into the rocket’s propellant. In a nutshell, they want to build a self-powered debris-sucking robotic space vacuum.