Earth ’s orbit is cluttered with dead satellite and other assorted space dust , make it more and more life-threatening for the ISS and new artificial satellite . DARPA ’s solution ? trance ’em all in a big ol’ net .
The Electrodynamic Debris Eliminator , or EDDE , would be a spacecraft with 200 nets attached to it , allowing it to gather up any errant satellites . It could then either ship them into the South Pacific , angle them to burn up on reentry or even recycle the materials right there in space for purpose in constructing next space stations or satellites .
passably unhinged stuff . But they already have a text trajectory plan for 2013 , and if that goes well , there could be a whole fleet of these thing cleaning up space by 2017 . [ TechWorldviaPopSci ]
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