“We see collisions happening. We see these debris clouds, it’s only going to get worse. We can’t ignore this problem. We have to act now.” A UK-based mission is set to remove junk from space. Using a giant claw, the CLEAR mission will remove two large pieces of space debris from low Earth orbit. In what is the first attempt to ease the dangerously congested space environment. ‘’This, as far as we know, will be the first removal of a real piece of debris from orbit. So, we’re not taking it with us. We ar