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[ad_1] The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a $ 102 million contract with a Swiss start-up to purchase a unique service: the first ever removal of a space debris object from orbit. The company, ClearSpace SA, will capture part of a used rocket using what is described as a …

[ad_1] British engineers are working on a technology that extracts oxygen from moon dust, releasing metal as a byproduct that could be used to build moon-based equipment via 3D printing. On November 27, the ESA team, led by University of Glasgow PhD student and ESA researcher Beth Lomax and ESA …