China has a plan to clean up space junk with lasers

phys.org ^ | 01/17/2018 | by Matt Williams, Universe Today

[PLMerite]

"China has a plan to clean up space junk with lasers"

You knew it was coming.

[PLMerite]

"...they are de-orbited over the Pacific Ocean."

How about just "Pacific Coast"?

[HereInTheHeartland]

I know a couple of guys who collect junk in their Chevy pickup.
They may have some ideas how to do this.

[Red Badger]

How about an autonomous robotic ship that can track each piece of junk, steer itself up to it, then reach out and just simply throw or nudge the piece to a descending orbit that would eventually burn it up?...........................

[dr_lew]

That’s a better idea than a big ball, which would almost never collide with anything, but all that maneuvering would be expensive in fuel. Conceivably it could use each item as a reaction mass to maneuver its own orbit while decreasing the orbital speed of the item to be disposed of. An AI project!