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“That’s why the unique data collected by Draco will help guide the development of new technologies to build more demisable satellites by 2030,” Krag said.
The DRACO initiative is part of ESA’s ambitious Zero Debris charter, with the goal of stopping the further creation of space debris by 2030. Last year the agency also pioneered a guided, safe reentry with the Aeolus mission.
“DRACO is an exciting mission that will shine a light on many of the unknowns during satellite reentries,” Tim Flohrer, head of ESA’s space debris office, said in the same statement.
The mission will “get us out of the chicken-and-egg loop and create a different data set to calibrate our systems and models, and will advance the implementation of zero-debris technologies in the near future,” Flohrer said.
The DRACO mission is being developed at a time when the number of launches grows globally, with a range of countries and companies building megaconstellations of satellites in low Earth orbit. The most notable of these is SpaceX’s huge and ever-growing Starlink network, which currently consists of more than 6,300 active spacecraft.
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