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A comment on Kessler Syndrome.

Re:Kessler Syndrome by Waterluvian on Thursday November 01, 2018 @12:27PM (#18355627)
Satellites are a pretty big deal connercially. Maybe something like this would just jumpstart one of our wildly productive bouts of human ingenuity?

Getting to the moon was kind of an insane idea until it happened. To someone wholly uninformed, this feels like it could be similar.

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Re:Kessler Syndrome by Someone on Thursday November 01, 2018 @02:25PM (#18356900)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Deorbit: ”e.Deorbit is a planned European Space Agency active space debris removal mission developed as a part of their Clean Space initiative”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RemoveDEBRIS: ”RemoveDEBRIS is a satellite research project intending to demonstrate various space debris removal technologies.

[…]

RemoveDEBRIS was launched aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on 2 April 2018

[…]

On 16 September 2018, it demonstrated its ability to use net to capture a deployed simulated target.”

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