Reply to post: Re: Vaporise in situ?

FYI: Mind how you go. We're more or less oblivious to 75% of junk in geosynchronous orbits around Earth

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Vaporise in situ?

laser brooms work on the principle of ablating stuff in LEO to slow it down and making it fall low enough to catch the atmosphere within days

That far out, a laser broom would take centuries to bring down any items

This is space tug territory

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