Robot for space debris and other things.

A prototype that came off the shelf of a university.

This robot was developed by the University of Southern California (USC) in 2020 but due to the pandemic the project was stopped, the prototype was literally left on a shelf in Professor David Barham's office, in 2021 the professor was giving a talk online, he did not have, like, a chroma key in the background, so he was giving the talk and what he had behind him was his shelf full of things, books, gadgets, junk and this prototype that was full of dust, was just stored there on the shelf.

Then the founders of a company called KMI from Michigan saw the video and realized the prototype, a more curious prototype, they contacted the university and reached a transfer and licensing agreement, with which their company KMI resumed the development of this robot, making significant improvements and adapting it to their needs, because this company in particular saw space debris as interesting, but what they were trying to develop was more of a tugboat, the option of being able to raise satellites to higher orbits so that they can remain active for longer. time.

Europe is also developing another larger robot with the same principle, it is late like all these things, but in principle they will do a test in space in 2028, at the latest in 2029 and it has a similar system, only that at a larger size, the scheme is more or less the same, it would be a satellite, a satellite robot capable of capturing inactive satellites, I am not saying that it is not used for military uses, I am convinced that it is, but inactive and can be thrown into the atmosphere in an area Safe, normally the safest area on the planet is Point Nemo, which is in the South Pacific, because it is the most unpopulated area on the planet.

By the way, Point Nemo is not an island, there is nothing at Point Nemo, there is no island, no rock, there is nothing solid, there is nothing, that is why it is the ideal place for this type of material disintegration operations to occur in space.