Re:Stuff in Space – realtime 3D map of objects in Earth's orbit
by gonesilent on Thursday April 05, 2018 @08:04PM
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Good opportunity here to make a game collecting space junk. Get kids thinking about such problems now. Maybe a KSP plug-in.
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Re:Stuff in Space – realtime 3D map of objects in Earth's orbit
by ilugaslifk on Thursday April 05, 2018 @08:31PM
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KSP's stock career mode does have missions involving retrieving individual pieces of debris. Though it's not framed or incentivized as "removing space junk" in exactly the way you mean.
There's also an anime series about space junk, 'Planetes' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes) -- which does the best job I've seen in any visual media of getting orbital mechanics right, and is generally somewhere between 'The Expanse' and 'Seveneves' on the scale of sci-fi "hardness". And, as far as anime goes, is relatively light enough on "anime bullshit" to be watchable even if you're normally not into that.