Monday, December 7, 2009

Conference Considers Space Trash

This conference isn't far away across the Bay, and if I had nothing better to do it might be fun to see if there any far-fetched ideas up against more conventional ones. (Actually, right now just about anything planned to remove orbital debris will be pretty far-fetched. But it would be fun to find out what's being considered.)

Seems to me the main problem is small debris. Large debris; just catch up, strap on a thruster, and send them into the ocean.

"You're gonna have to declare that." (Customs official inspecting a piece of Skylab that fell on Australia.)


International Conference on Orbital Debris Removal
(This is a PDF.)

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