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Privateer Tackles Space Junk Crisis with AI Solutions

7/27/2025

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With thousands of pieces of space junk threatening the International Space Station and satellites, Privateer, co-founded by Steve Wozniak, is stepping up to tackle the crisis. By harnessing AI to track and remove defunct satellites, they propose a bounty system to encourage the creation of a "janitor satellite" dedicated to cleaning up our orbit.

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With thousands of pieces of space junk threatening the International Space Station and satellites, Privateer, co-founded by Steve Wozniak, is stepping up to tackle the crisis. By harnessing AI to track and remove defunct satellites, they propose a bounty system to encourage the creation of a "janitor satellite" dedicated to cleaning up our orbit.