OREANDA-NEWS. June 07, 2010. A new technology for removing space garbage has been developed by the Russian scientists of Omsk. Roscosmos provides support for the project.

This is a cheap technical solution for removing separated rocket parts from LEO,- Valery Trushliakov, Omsk University, explains. – A special tug will pick up space garbage. The tug will operate with unused propellant.

The scientists are ready to perform first flight tests in two years, provided that the project gets sufficient financing.