Orbiting the Earth are spent rocket stages, non-functioning satellites, hardware from satellite deployment and staging, fragments of exploded spacecraft, and other relics of decades of space exploration and orbital debris. In this paper, I describe a concept under study by the Program Development Laboratory of Marshall Space Flight Center and others to remove debris with a ground-based laser.


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    Title :

    Orbital Debris Removal Using Ground-Based Lasers


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1996


    Size :

    8 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English