NASA-funded laser network to knock space junk off orbit

The research explores whether space-based lasers can zap even tiny particles or large fields of debris off potential collision courses with objects like satellites or space stations. (Image: Illustration/Savanna Leech)

Space junk has become an urgent problem because the world’s outer environment is getting increasingly cluttered

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The CASUS team will take its structural transition project further and progress an important experimental method for analysing laser fusion with the funding. (Image: HZDR)

EU grants €700,000 to laser fusion optimisation project

A total of €375 million is available in funding, although most is reserved to support the economy in areas most affected by structural change, academic institutions can also apply for research and development project funding.

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