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Using nets or arms seems wasteful to me, to be honest; you'd need to bring a new satellite up there for every piece of debris you want to get rid of. Wouldn't i
by AllegedAlec 8y ago
Using nets or arms seems wasteful to me, to be honest; you'd need to bring a new satellite up there for every piece of debris you want to get rid of. Wouldn't it be a lot more convenient to use something like laser ablation to slow down the debris and make it burn up in the atmosphere on its own?
- msadowski 8y agoI don't know the process of laser ablation. How would you use it in the context of this mission?
- AllegedAlec 8y agoWith laser ablation you fire a high-wattage laser as something to turn a very small surface layer to plasma. The expanding plasma cloud imparts an impulse onto the surface it is ablating, which can be used to slow down debris. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion#Ablative_laser_propulsion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion#Ablative_lase...
- garmaine 8y agoLaser ablation would create debris, wouldn’t it?
- AllegedAlec 8y agoTechnically, yes. You would cause some plasma to be formed, but I don't think it would in any way worsen the Kessler Syndrome situation.