[Bidimus1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DakRYsUIiIE&feature=player_detailpage

Good Scifi on space trash.. no not Quark !

[Vaquero]

...the growing cloud of LEO debris

[alancarp]

Good idea, but probably too complicated. It will take a ton of fuel to do the maneuvers required to do multiple intercepts.

Might be a better idea to do a cheaper system with several ‘parasite’ units launched all at once. Each one targets a single dead bird, latches on (I’m picturing use of a super-sticky surface, but that’s a little nutty), then does a modest burn that decays the orbit slowly... requiring less fuel and less complexity.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"the first of which is the requirement for the small satellite to perform precise adjustments of its trajectory to intercept its target"

After they succeed in developing this technology for honing in on fast moving space debris, it may take just a few more years to enhance the capabilities so they can keep up with Romney's ever-changing political trajectories.

Unfortunately, not in time for this election cycle.

[omega4412]

Very interesting website. Information (including maps and times) on past and predicted reentry of space junk.

[Ingtar]

Under cold war definitions, this is a space weapon.

[Kickass Conservative]

https://www.schticky.com/?refcode=1002&ot=tm

[JimWayne]

Seems suspicious. Who is paying for it? I bet we are paying for it through the UN or something.

[vikingd00d]

Mega-Maid

[C19fan]

Why doesn’t it surprise me those tidy Swiss want to do some space cleaning. :)

[Jack Hydrazine]

How about using Hall Effect ion engines in these satellites to help bring down dead sats?

[Kartographer]

Sounds like a job for Rosie!

[Ramius]

Hmm. An orbital Roomba. Zoomba?

[freedomlover]

[mikey_hates_everything]

Surprised this isn’t a Mexican satellite.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Reminds me of a short-lived TV series in the 1970’s.
Richard Benjamin played the Captain of an interstellar
garbage truck.