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Space bags could be the answer to the growing space junk problem surrounding our planet, but it's going to take a while to test it.

, TransAstra recently received an early-stage NASA contract to create revolutionary space bags that could help catch debris and space junk in orbit, allowing us to more safely bring it back down to Earth, where it can be appropriately disposed of or perhaps even reused.The contract that TransAstra received is for $850,000, and it will essentially cover the bag, which will be designed to inflate once it reaches orbit.

While working on that idea, the company realized that capturing asteroids and space junk would probably be very similar, thus causing it to branch off and attempt to create a space junk capturing bag that we can use to clean up Earth’s orbit.

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