RE: Orbital Space Junk?

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RE: Orbital Space Junk?

What would be the best thing to do with orbital space junk, send it out into deep space, Nudge it into a controlled re-entry trajectory, or park it some where for recycling at a later date.

Would it be viable to put a robot tug to seek out the larger bits of junk & dead satellites in orbit, to do this kind of work?

It could probably have ion engines for main & navigational thrusters.

Be ground controlled for sensitive tasks.

If its fuel reserves were depleted it could jettison its main fuel tank into a re-entry trajectory after a full replacement tank is sent up at a later date.
Or it could periodically meet up with a separate auxiliary tank & top off when it needs to, for continued operations.

At least its something that "can" be done, instead of ignoring the problem. The tech already exists. At least its an option.



*By the way, which country is responsible for putting the majority of the "junk" up there in the first place?
 
We could create a metal-eating nano-bug, and somehow get it to the junk, where it would dissolve or eat the metal, and then eventually accidently reach the surface of the Earth, where it would spread and eat all of our metal, spelling the end to modern technology as we know it, causing us to slide back to utter savagery using stone knives and bear skins...

(Good idea...glad I thought of it...my bad...)
 
The best thing to do with it, generally, is to leave it alone and track it, and keep the Space Shuttle etc. out of its way--which we're doing now. Bringing it down in controlled reentry would be desirable but it would be way too difficult. The amount of space the junk occupies is huge compared to the amount of junk out there, so it would take a lot of moving around just to get a tug from one piece to another--that's a lot of fuel, plus the stuff you used to get the tug up there in the first place. Sending the junk into deep space would be even harder.
 
*By the way, which country is responsible for putting the majority of the "junk" up there in the first place?

not so sure but usa, rusia,japan and recently china are the only countries with capabilities lol

They send the junk to poorly regulated countries like Argentina (my country lol)... I wonder if those things are toxic.... huh
 
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