By: steve smyth
Maybe they can get together with the Space Fence people…dust and fences…it’ll be like the Wild West out there. Truly amazing…launch more debris to prevent the debris already there…DUH! Try this…...
View ArticleBy: Tony Mach
What could possibly go wrong? Yeah, right. How about trying it out on another planet first? Preferably one were we can do without space travel in low orbit for some time? Litter Venus with space junk,...
View ArticleBy: scribbler
Why not use water? I mean, put the water into a shape and size you want, freeze it and put it into an orbit where it picks up debris and at a certain mass, falls harmlessly back to earth…
View ArticleBy: fintin
Couldn’t we use some sort of sweeper system? It guess it sounds ridiculous, but it’d have more control than a bunch of dust.
View ArticleBy: Maggie
The country that owns the pieces of space junk should be required to remove it.
View ArticleBy: JC
I’ve had an idea about a cleanup mini-sat that’d just have to get close to debris, then fire a squirt of some kind of gas (heading in the opposite direction, natch) such that the debris would hit the...
View ArticleBy: Jeffrey Cornish
if the dust is not doing orbital velocity (7.mumble kps) it will deorbit, so overall it would be safe. for any of the dust to remain in orbit, it would have to be accellerated to orbital velocity,...
View ArticleBy: David Evans
Even if the dust has orbital velocity, radiation pressure will push its orbit into the atmosphere in a short time (if the particles are small enough).
View ArticleBy: pete
I recall someone suggesting that the dust be made from a plastic, so that it will degrade in the intense sunlight
View ArticleBy: Prof.Pedant
Since it is vacuum that needs to be cleaned up….wouldn’t it make sense to use a ‘vacuum cleaner’?
View ArticleBy: scribbler
Why not use water? I mean, put the water into a shape and size you want, freeze it and put it into an orbit where it picks up debris and at a certain mass, falls harmlessly back to earth…
View ArticleBy: fintin
Couldn’t we use some sort of sweeper system? It guess it sounds ridiculous, but it’d have more control than a bunch of dust.
View ArticleBy: Maggie
The country that owns the pieces of space junk should be required to remove it.
View ArticleBy: JC
I’ve had an idea about a cleanup mini-sat that’d just have to get close to debris, then fire a squirt of some kind of gas (heading in the opposite direction, natch) such that the debris would hit the...
View ArticleBy: Jeffrey Cornish
if the dust is not doing orbital velocity (7.mumble kps) it will deorbit, so overall it would be safe. for any of the dust to remain in orbit, it would have to be accellerated to orbital velocity,...
View ArticleBy: David Evans
Even if the dust has orbital velocity, radiation pressure will push its orbit into the atmosphere in a short time (if the particles are small enough).
View ArticleBy: pete
I recall someone suggesting that the dust be made from a plastic, so that it will degrade in the intense sunlight
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