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The Kessler Syndrome

[ThomasThomas]

[RetiredTexasVet]

A new game - Dodge Debris.

[CMB_polarization]

Add to detecting and solving the threat of asteroid impact, a new activity for starry-eyed startups.

[Vince Ferrer]

My solution would be to build a tower about 100,000 feet into the stratosphere, which can be dome with today's technology. On top of the tower put a cannon which can launch dry ice pellets straight up about 300 miles. The dry ice will sublimate into carbon dioxide gas, which is heavy enough to get pulled back down to earth, and as a gas will spread out into a cloud. When space debris hits the carbon dioxide, it will loose momentum and gradually drop out of orbit, but will not be destroyed by the gas. Even working satellites will get hit, but should not be too damaged, and still have a working life while it is being pulled down.

The result of this will be that all the space debris, including working satellites, will fall into the atmosphere and burn up. During this time we can be launching new satellites to replace the old.

[TMSuchman]

It could be a money maker for someone who could pull everything together as a space salvage expert.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I the idea of “the big ball of goo”. The idea is to launch a fairly large satellite, that when in orbit extends long, hollow, telescoping rods, attached to the ends of which are a very large, spherical tent. The tent is then filled with high expansion, polymer foam.

Gas is then exhausted through the rods to help the ball navigate into the path of the smaller space junk. And even at their high average speed of 15,500mph, hopefully they would be caught by the polymer instead of punching through it. Then when enough was captured, the whole ball would reenter the atmosphere, burning up.

[dalereed]

An expert is a swede shoe salesman hawking his BS more than 50 miles from home!

[American in Israel]

“Whatever we are going to do, whatever we have to do, is an expensive solution,”

All problems that Politicians invent and solve are expensive. If they were not expensive, there would be no reason to do them.

[Cheerio]

Sounds like a full-employment act for NASA Astronauts.

[blueunicorn6]

“Sixth European Conference On Space Debris”

What did they come up with at the first five conferences?

“I say that debris in space is bad!”
“Me too! I want it on record that I’m against space debris!”
“And weak mixed drinks! We can all be against that!”
“Yes! And large sodas in space! Maybe we should have a subcommittee on that.”

[blueunicorn6]

“Head of The European Space Agency Space Debris Office”.

“Excuse me, but do you know where the head of The European Space Agency Space Debris Office is?”

“Maybe you should get a map of the solar system and see if he’s in Uranus.”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The 200 most crucial satellites identified by the space community have an insured value of $169.5 million

Only $850k per satellite? Why so low?

[Axenolith]

Solar collectors at Lagrange points that either focus and emit concentrated light or convert it to a narrow beam laser. With the light or laser you could vaporize the small objects and with the larger objects you could vaporize a surface point to impart earthward momentum...

[Jet Jaguar]

[Bratch]