[teeman8r]

but aren’t the orbits degrading? why haven’t they “fallen” back to earth yet? if the satellite is traveling at the same speed, isn’t collection easier? An orbiting “roomba” should be able to suck up the debris along with a few foreign spy satellites.

[Red Badger]

The individual pieces of space junk are not all in the same orbit going in the same direction. It would be like trying to catch bullets in a battlefield. And yes they will all eventually fall to Earth and burn up but some may be up there for thousands of years..........

[Red Badger]