Rocket Lab will launch a Finnish cubesat this year to test space junk cleanup tech

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A tiny cubesat called AuroraSat-1 will launch atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster in the fourth quarter of this year to demonstrate de-orbiting tech for small spacecraft.

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[Aplu]

I suggested to RocketLab a year or so ago that with their rapid manufacture and launch capabilities they were probably the company best sited in the world to take advantage of satellite salvage, when they becomes an economic necessity for spacefaring states.