In sci.space.station message , Tue, 23 Apr
2013 13:30:37, Brian Gaff posted:


My idea of a space junk remover would be to try two ideas. firstly, a large
but superstorng sail is deployed so that the junk is captured, then the
edges are sent via small thrusters so they cross over and capture the
object. then you could deorbit the whole thing assuming you coule still get
the main thrusters to point in the right direction!

No sheet of material can be string enough to capture something impacting
at over the speed of sound in that material, since it cannot resist fast
enough. Approximately.


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