FAST COMPANY 91 MILLENNIUM SPACE SYSTEMS NASA estimates that there are more than 100 million pieces of space junk, the flotsam of decommissioned satellites and rockets. WHEN ELON MUSK FOUNDED SPACEX, IN 2002, he thought it had a less than 10% chance of succeeding as a business. In November 2020, Millennium, which has been building small satellites for customers such as the U.S. Air Force since 2001, launched an experiment to clean up debris in low Earth orbit (LEO). [Extracted from the article]
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