'Vacuum Satellite' To Clean Up Space Debris

Flap Zappa Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:11 pm

http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16170920

sounds like a very good idea as it only takes a fleck of paint or even a screw to knock out a satellite or worse the ISS. the people who can hoover up space will make a fortune if of course they can get it all to work.

If they don't there might come a time when there is so much junk flying around in orbit that launching satellites becomes impossible

Hugh Jardon Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:44 pm

Flap Meister wrote:http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16170920

sounds like a very good idea as it only takes a fleck of paint or even a screw to knock out a satellite or worse the ISS. the people who can hoover up space will make a fortune if of course they can get it all to work.

If they don't there might come a time when there is so much junk flying around in orbit that launching satellites becomes impossible

will it have a crevice tool (ooh matron!) by any chance?