Since man first ventured into the cosmos, space has been gradually filling up with space junk— remnants of old spacecraft, ejected pieces of equipment, parts of launch rockets and micro-fragments of glass and metal. This junk poses a real threat to our dependency on satellite services, but luckily Dr. Jason Forshaw, part of the RemoveDebris team, is launching one the world’s first missions to test space junk capturing technologies later this year. He explains what to expect.