Job title of the long run: House particles engineer
Engineering the ins and outs: The 1st step in decreasing orbital litter—or, colloquially, house trash—is designing spacecraft that safely go away house when their missions are full. “I believed naïvely, as a pupil, ‘How laborious can that be?’” says Lemmens. The reply turned out to be extra sophisticated than he anticipated. At ESA, he works…