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Re:Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up... by fsloth on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:52AM (#28526628)
I imagine orbital velocities of debris is all over the place. It sound like you would need a magic source of thrust for all that delta-v to match orbits and whatnot.
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Re:Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up... by ben-schaaf on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:28PM (#28527163)
The closest we have to that would probably be solar sails. Considering that cleanup usually isn't time sensitive it could be a very cheap and effective solution.
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Re:Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up... by MichaelMoser123 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:01PM (#28526772)
they might try out solar powered ion engines. Deep space one is powered by an engine of this type, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_electric_propulsion
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