Could nuking the orbital junk do the job for a lot of junk?
Is it a space station or a satellite ?
I don’t remember the Euro-peons launching a space station. Must have been a top secret spy operation.
Thar she blows! We got her inthe her reactor core. Don’t worry about the radio active fallout.
Try using a giant cue stick instead and take out more than one sat at a time. 8 ball in the side pocket.
Airbus IS an expert on bringing large objects down to earth.
Launch rockets in a parabolic orbit that release a tank full of hydrogen. The hydrogen will spread out into a gigantic cloud. Orbiting debris will go through the cloud, and in colliding with the hydrogen, slow down a bit. Usually the cloud will be so dispersed that a few hydrogen atoms hitting a working satellite will not destroy it. But everything that gets hit by hydrogen will slow down in its orbit, gradually bringing everything back down to Earth over time after repeated collisions with the hydrogen.
Somehow, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comes immediately to my mind.
Another ESA success story! :^) Ironically, the Envirosat may have been disabled by a collision with space debris.