Ep. 672: Space Debris Removal
Astronomy Cast
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The Tiny Gigantic Drive
The idea of ablating is you basically are removing layers of the material until it is no more. And so now it's as if the piece of debris has fired its own little rocket to slow itself down in the direct. So there have been a couple of papers that we've reported on at university about these ablative lasers. Most of the ideas are coming out of China. Would you be all right having that in orbit overhead? I feel like that breaks the outer space treaty somewhere.
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