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This drag sail could prevent spacecraft from turning into long-term orbiting junk. We spoke to its inventors ahead of launch

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Re: Fifteen kilograms?!?

I think the relevant question is: how does the drag you get from deploying that sail for 10 days, compare to the impulse you could get from burning 15kg of rocket propellant?

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