Japan's Astroscale has a new robot tug to clean up space junk. Here's how it works (video) - https://www.space.com/space-junk-astroscale-elsa-m-spacecraft-video

Rendezvous, retrograde burn and repeat — Astroscale’s ELSA-M will be capable of deorbiting multiple satellites per mission.


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