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Shouldn't something similar be carried on future manned space flights?
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Low Earth Orbit is sop full of space junk! It's about time they got as garbage man to clean up the trash!
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| Robert (Butch) Day wrote: | | Shouldn't something similar be carried on future manned space flights? |
Manned missions? I don't think so. Here's why.
The beauty of these different concepts, Butch, is that hundreds of the "garbage drones" can be deployed and stay up there for years, with no lives being endangered by anything which might happen to the drones.
After all, it will take years to even put a dent in this gigantic problem, so we'll need many drones in orbit, working constantly to dispose of the larger pieces of space junk. Unfortunately there's probably no way to get rid of the tiny bits of paint and small objects in orbit, and those are the objects that have already done damage to satellites and the ISS. 
However, if we ever build a real space station, populated by a few hundred people living in a pleasant environment with artificial gravity (from a spinning section), it could be the base for a team whose job it would be to go out in spacecraft and service the garbage drones when they have mechanical problems.
Drones that can still maneuver despite their mechanical problems could be ordered to dock with the station and be repaired "in house".
This would be the "house", of course. 
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