Space debris is poised to be the next frontier of recycling even while more companies attempt to make low Earth orbit safer for space industrial ecosystems.
Space scrap will feed these industrial ecosystems and act as the raw material feedstock for any advanced space manufacturing systems, such as 3D printing, Airbus' in-space manufacturing and assembly roadmap owner Christophe Figus told Fastmarkets this week.The orbital graveyard is estimated to contain 6,000 tonnes of scrap materials, caused about...