A British spacecraft is taking out the rubbish — and you could name it
A competition is seeking a name for the UK’s Active Debris Removal Mission, with the winning suggestion to be etched onto the spacecraft.
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There now follow 5 million entries of Binny McBinFace 😂
Nov 5, 2026, 9:33 PM@Steampunk_Prof @ianvisits That's the name I expected to see under here. 😁
Floaty McSpaceFace?
Nov 5, 2026, 3:48 PM@ianvisits hey @sundogplanets did you see this, they’ll need a hundred of them to clean up starlink.
@Bwacton @ianvisits More than 100, I bet...
Spacey McSpaceface?
Nov 5, 2026, 7:26 PM@ianvisits
Elon's Pie Hole
@ianvisits My vote would be for "Toy Box" or "Carmichael": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes
@ianvisits Dusty Bin
@ianvisits Extra Large Orbital Nasties Search, Collect, Remove, And Process
@ianvisits how about simply Space Toilet?
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CleanX
are the british taxpayer paying to clean up america's mess?
@ianvisits clearly, and in so many ways, The Liberator!
DeepBin
DeepBin Squirrel
There's currently an online contest to name a British spacecraft that will deal with space rubbish.
Just when I thought that ads, tech bros, Ai, and walled gardens had degraded and enshittified the internet to the point of making it repulsive, along comes Spacey McBinFace to give the information superhighway a happy reason to continue to exist.
I, for one, look forward to the etching of the winning name on the UK's Active Debris Removal Mission spacecraft.
@ianvisits Vacuum vacuum.
@ianvisits Musky McMuskface.
@ianvisits Unmusker.
Nov 6, 2026, 5:31 AM@ianvisits Backlogged For Phase Two