NASA awards startup $850,000 to develop space debris capture bag | NASA awarded space logistics startup TransAstra a contract to develop an inflatable capture bag capable of transporting orbital de…::undefined
A gigantic Kevlar bag may be a idea.
There was a really good anime about exactly this kind of situation
Space Garbage Men, job of the future. In all seriousness, I’m glad they’re looking at solutions, because this issue can get out of hand very fast from what I’ve read. If we had no regard for the build up of space trash, we could have a halo of debris making leaving the planet impossible, or at the very least, dangerous.
Would slowing them down be enough? I’m thinking along the lines of a magnet.
If you allow them down then they will get pulled into the atmosphere and burn up. The ISS stays in orbit because it’s moving so fast and needs a push now and again to keep the speed up.
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