Guardian: A British team has been working on a method of getting rid of the tons of hazardous space debris orbiting Earth. CubeSail, which was developed by Vaios Lappas and his team at the Surrey Space Centre at the University of Surrey, resembles a child’s kite and folds up into a tiny launchable “nano-satellite.” As CubeSail travels through space, particles of junk will hit the sail, reducing their orbit and thus causing them to reenter Earth’s atmosphere and burn up. Launch is planned for sometime next year.
