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Re:We’ve Already Passed the Tipping Point for Orbital Debris by swang on Thursday September 27, 2012 @10:48AM (#4580933)
My science teacher back in 1996 told the class about the immense amount of garbage piling around orbit and told us that when we were older it would become a serious problem and that whoever figured out how to be "space garbagemen/women" would be very rich.

The class kinda laughed, space is so vast and who wants to be known as garbage men?

Should have gotten my degree as a Space Debris Collector.

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Re:We’ve Already Passed the Tipping Point for Orbital Debris by thejteam on Thursday September 27, 2012 @11:28AM (#4581101)
DARPA is currently working on this now.

http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/TTO/Programs/Phoenix.aspx

Specifically, they are looking into ways to remotely salvage parts from existing satellite and presumably remove the satellites from orbit.

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