It is intended to locate small space debris that travels at a speed of a bullet and is potentially dangerous for satellites and other structural elements.
Space junk is a big problem that humanity has, and there are millions of these fragments around our planet, and not only can they fall to earth at any time, but also collide with some other satellite.
Now the British startup Odin Space debuts a technology to detect small pieces of space debris, and for this they will use sensors connected to a space tug that has already been put into orbit aboard the Space X mission, Transporter-8.
The goal is to expand the ability to detect these pieces of space junk which are potentially dangerous.
Odin Space’s sensor is capable of detecting space debris as small as a tenth of a millimeter, fragments that are too small to track with other technologies.
These pieces of orbital shrapnel travel around the Land at the speed of a bullet, so if they collide with something like a satellite or a space station it can be really dangerous.
For them, Odin Space will seek to record and analyze the size, speed, and trajectory of these small fragments of space debris, by detecting the vibrations they produce.
What the company intends is to launch hundreds of these sensors on board third-party satellites in order to build a dynamic map of the space debris environment around Earth.
Its plans will start with launching next-generation satellites next year at the rate of 10 sensors per year on low-Earth orbit and geostationary satellites.
