Superfund to clean up space junk

Bill Welser, co-author of \"Confronting Space Debris\" from RAND Corporation joins the Federal Drive with information on how DARPA and RAND are trying to clean ...

The federal government is looking for ways to clean up space. Right now, Earth-orbit is filled with space junk zipping by at thousands of miles per hour. That poses a risk to space craft. The RAND Corporation has partnered with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to work on ideas for cleaning up space junk. They’ve come up with a Superfund approach, like the one used to clean up pollution. Bill Welser is a management systems analyst for RAND, and co-author of the report, “Confronting Space Debris – Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon.” He told the Federal Drive how his organization got involved in the project.

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