Interesting read. Same technology could be used to pull dead satellites out of orbit.
Based on what I have read we’ll probably get hit with an asteroid that we won’t see coming before we ever develop any technology to deal them.
That is true and the tech can be used for dead satellites. The planet is in a middle of a shooting gallery asteroids and comets coming at all directions.NASA has been falling behind their goal in detecting rocks from space.Congress has mandated that NASA discover 90 percent of all near-Earth objects 140 meters in diameter or greater by 2020. The most alarming thing about this is the United States is the only country that currently has an operating survey/detection program.