A (vacuum cleaner) craft to clear debris and restore vacuum to space?
A Swiss institute is proposing to build satellites that will hunt, capture and bring back earth orbiting debris to fiery death in a suicidal embrace. While this may be a marvel of Swiss precision Army Knife activity, is this responsible engineering?
No question but that we have to clean up the mess we have made up there. But sending up a hunt and capture satellite, which has to spew out a lot of emissions to maneuver to reach the target, deorbit and burn itself and its captive seems to be wasteful of resources and creation of more pollution.
Who bears the cost and how many missions would be required to make a perceptible change is anybody's guess.
I for one am in the dissent on this.
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