Comments on: Russia Will Spend $2 Billion on a Space Drone to Tidy up Orbit

By: potatoe

potatoe — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:06:07 +0000

Well, the ‘US’ started with the Boeing X-37

By: neorpheus

neorpheus — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:23:53 +0000

well well well…, good job russia, like others i am concerned that this may turn out to be just a ploy to get a military satelite in orbit however i am glad something is being done about the junk up there (even if our comm sats count as junk). just to bad there wont be any job openings for earth orbit salvage ship operators any time soon

By: megan

megan — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:37:51 +0000

I’ve been wondering why they didn’t spend some of the space station orbits on tether capturing human manageable debris and then set it off on a slow degrade back into the atmosphere to burn or towards the sun. But some of the metals and stuff ARE VALUABLE. I always wished to get into space salvaging.

By: scott

scott — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:07:33 +0000

any form of trash clean up sounds good to me, i think it will have to be done at some point, like it or not, alterior motive or not as important satelites randomly smash together costing billions and creating havoc.

if this does end as space wars, then we are a stupid species that destroys itself over ego and opinions. the scientists are no better…they work for the governments who want to control everyone creating things to allow this.

i think there is some kind of genetic flaw, where humans actually like trash because i see it everywhere. on beaches, rivers, lakes, mountains, in every country i go to i see it, tossed on the streets, piled up somewhere (in space). and come on..people know its not right at some level, but little is done to address it. go to almost any beach or lake after a big rain for example and you will a rainbow of color from plastic crap floating in the water. huge, diesel spewing street sweepers each week cranking down my street collecting trash. the fact that those are even needed is sad and pathetic.

By: PJD

PJD — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:33:19 +0000

Ha! it just dawned on me why no one has come to visit our lil out of the wya planet! They can’t SEE it for all the space debris built up over the last 50 years!

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:02:04 +0000

Before you accuse me of an irrational paranoia, remember Stalin and the Katyn forest, etc.

This apprears to be a thinly disguised attempt at a military satellite interceptor.

Yea, go Russia! Continue the militarization of space.

I’m just sayin’…

By: Realist

Realist — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:56:46 +0000

Sure you will, Russia. Sure you will.

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:33:50 +0000

Wow, if this is the real deal, go Russia!

At last someone is trying to deal with the root of the space junk problem.

By: Peter Sobolev

Peter Sobolev — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:45:09 +0000

Why do you think that it is _official_ Roscosmos page on Facebook? There are non-russian admins and I can’t find any link to it on official Roscosmos web site.

By: nick

nick — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:49:47 +0000

Bonus points if someone invents the idea of magnetically (or however) attracting smaller debris and then using a magnetic-bucket railgun to fire the debris into the atmosphere, providing extra lift (action-reaction pair) as well as getting rid of the debris.

War has followed mankind everywhere. It will spill into space eventually, no matter how much territory there may theoretically be out there, only some of it is valuable. To us, anyway, as far as we currently know. Who knows, maybe we’ll find tons of dark matter in the solar system, a way to harvest it and a nice use for it.