Study on acceptable offsets of ejected nets from debris center for successful capture of debris

This study focused on the robustness of tether net in capturing space debris and investigated the effect of ejection alignment on capture success, with an assumption that there was an alignment between net ejection direction and direction to debris. The robustness of capture was significantly affected by the distance to the debris and the deployed size of the tether net at the timing of collision with the debris. (C) 2020 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.