Sentences with phrase «junk out of orbit»

Russia's space corporation, Energia, is planning to build a space pod to knock junk out of orbit and back down to earth.

Not exact matches

A September report by the National Research Council found that the debris field is so dense that collisions between objects in orbit will create additional debris faster than space junk falls out of orbit.

Some creative minds have been put to the task of dreaming up solutions, including wild ideas like launching water at the junk to knock it out of orbit, but the new space plan will hopefully focus on devising something more practical.

The idea is to sent rockets loaded up with water into space, release it, and create a wall of water that orbiting junk would bump into, slow down, and fall out of orbit.