Clean up space junk with giant golden balloons

There is so much space debris orb Earth right now that it poses a danger to space vehicle and space stations – even a tiny piece of music of debris can shred a hull . But now there ’s a cheap , bare answer .

harmonise to Fast Company ’s Kit Eaton :

Dr. Kristen Gates has one thought , and it ’s beautiful and mere . It ’s dubbed GOLD — the Gossamer Orbit Lowering machine — and it ’s just been bring out at the “ Artificial and Natural Space Debris ” session of the AIAA Astrodynamics Specialists Conference .

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GOLD is not much more than a football game - field sized balloon ( made of gossamer - thin but super - elusive material , a little like solar sails ) that is flee into orbit deflate in a bag - sized box and then fasten to a dead orbiter . It ’s then inflate to maximum size of it , and the Brobdingnagian bulk of the balloon massively increases the atmospheric puff that artificial satellite experience up there in the nothingness . This drag is due to the rare molecules of flatulency that hover around above the fringe of the atmosphere , and it ’s the same drag that resulted in the premature deorbiting of the famous Skylab artificial satellite in the 1970s , when the machinist of orbital drag were n’t as well realize . The retarding force playact to slow a satellite in its orbital path , and then simple orbital mechanic mean the artificial satellite descends into the air where the denser air heats it to the gunpoint it burns up .

clean up our local intensity of blank with golden balloon ? contract us up .

viaFast Company(thanks , Noah ! )

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