UK floats harpoon solution to ’space junk’

Experts from across the globe are meeting in Germany to discuss how to deal with the threat of space junk. After decades of space exploration there is estimated to be 6,000 tonnes of the material. The clutter includes disused satellites, old spacecraft and even flecks of paint. The experts say the growing amount of debris in orbit around the Earth is putting global communications at risk and could have disastrous consequences. One team of British scientists say they have found a