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Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:52:40 UTC No. 16624974
will be ever be able to clean orbital space from scrap junk or have we doomed future generations forever to stay on earth?
orbital space is way bigger than Earth's surface and a piece the size of a screw is enough to kill somebody and destroy whatever thing they want to put into space in 2500
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:09:01 UTC No. 16624989
>>16624974
everything below something like 500km altitude will come down withing a few years by itself. its the stuff farther out thats going to stick around for a while
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:26:06 UTC No. 16624998
>>16624989
500km is nothing. geostationary orbit is about 36000km up and the moon is 390000km up.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:30:03 UTC No. 16625002
>>16624998
yes i know. but most things are in LEO. the vast majority
TDG !!YByxW7AXs7/ at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:09:15 UTC No. 16625104
>>16624974
Spongy shielding material. Might look very silly on a ship but hey! Alternatively, "bullet sponges" to soak up debris crossing a certain orbit.
>>16624989
Jup. Could sit that out.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:17:37 UTC No. 16625112
>>16625104
they have pretty good shields on the ISS. multiple layers that absorb the impact and break it up into even smaller bits.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:41:51 UTC No. 16625129
>>16625104
>"bullet sponges"
Ballistics gel heat-sheild
Yuoe'r welcome
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:01:27 UTC No. 16625203
>>16624998
the further out you go, the chance you hit something decreases exponentially
that said, it will be problem eventually
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:31:33 UTC No. 16625226
>>16625203
the main problem is if those old geo stationary sats in their graveyard orbits get hit by something and turned into a cloud of crap, or soemthing like that. at some point it'll be feasible to just go collect them up, hopefully.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:34:00 UTC No. 16625231
>>16625226
space is way bigger than earth. if we can't collect microplastics on earth how are we gonna collect microjunk floating around for centuries?
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:38:54 UTC No. 16625237
>>16625231
just fly something up there and pick them up. same like how you could, if you wanted to, have ships out there filtering the ocean, or at least where the concentrations are highest. thats probably a bigger job than rounding up some old satellites.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:27:12 UTC No. 16625282
>>16624974
just build a big ass concave mirror and burn up the crap. Though targeting might be an issue, and drag.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:56:09 UTC No. 16625335
>>16624998
only very specific orbits get cluttered, you will eventually need to send up a laser broom to vaporize junk in GEO due to the specificity of that orbit
the VLEO orbits that are self cleaning are also the useful ones for most purposes