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"Adras-1" aims to rid outer space of junk

A START-UP company with a printer-sized machine aims to get more than half a million pieces of junk that are orbiting around Earth out of outer space.

A SMALL Singaporean company has developed a prototype of a machine that could hold the key to removing man-made junk from outer space.

ASTROSCALE, a start-up with about 50 employees, hopes a market will grow for its "Adras-1", and that satellite operators will seek to protect their expensive machinery as space becomes more crowded with orbiting junk.

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