The core of the bill would direct NASA to establish an active debris removal program. That would include funding research and development activities “with the intent to close commercial capability gaps and enable potential future remediation missions for such orbital debris,” the bill states. NASA would also fund a demonstration mission for debris removal and allow it and other agencies to procure debris removal services.

Let’s clear out some big targets! This is great. We aren’t anywhere close to Kessler syndrome, but proactively going after some dead sats and rocket 2nd stages will help prevent a lot of future headaches.