[ExI] Spacecraft (was MM)

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jan 2, 2011, at 6:19 PM, spike wrote:

> 
> ... On Behalf Of Samantha Atkins
> ...
> 
>> ...One nice thing about these big laser beams to orbit is they could
> accidentally or on purpose de-orbit a lot of space junk that has accumulated
> there.  :)
> 
> I don't follow you there.  Suppose you hit a dead satellite with a laser.
> Now you may cause some pieces to break off, but that doesn't actually
> deorbit anything.
> 

I was toying idly with the notion that some launch laser systems might be powerful enough to burn up or melt some space junk.   Not the best of ideas.  :)

- s