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.
Orbital Debris Removal Using Ground-Based Lasers
1996
8 pages
Report
No indication
English
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