Scientists: created for 12 “cosmic vacuum cleaner” to clean debris in Earth orbit – Grivna.info

The strong cosmic rain of debris satellites and rockets, became seriously threaten mankind. Part of the debris falling directly on the Earth and can injure people on the planet. Analysis of the situation over the past year has forced scientists to accelerate the withdrawal of the entire planet cosmic vacuum cleaners into orbit. Developers from different countries suggested 12 ways to waste debris. According to information provided information portal Neelov.

Many of romance love watching a falling star and make a wish, but few of them thinks it’s burning of debris left by the astronauts. Already such debris account for 150,000 items. Each of them is moving at a speed of about 50 000 km / h – this is much higher than the speed of a bullet. If the Earth’s surface debris almost nedoletayut, each space shuttle is littered with potholes crash.

Increased debris falling to the ground was the main reason to accelerate the development of long ago invented devices for cleaning landfill space. At this time, there are twelve ways.

1. To equip satellites additional fuel tank that will pull them further into space, or sent to the atmosphere, for cremation.
2. Robotic uborschik- Kamikaze CleanSpace One – satellite with the “hand”, grabbing the chip and moving him into the layers of the atmosphere, where they both burn.
3. The destruction of laser beams. Minus a cleaning – the inability to completely burn metal and alloys can cause even greater danger.
4. The cloud of gas ballistic. The brainchild of company Boeing, the satellite with the gas generator will be put into orbit in the opposite direction of rotation of all the bodies and release a cloud, crashing into the garbage that will go down in the atmosphere and burn up.
5. Japanese trawler space – catching garbage in original network.
6. Static electricity – push out debris further into space. Garbage will be charged electrons drone GLiDer.
7. Balloon – embedded in the satellite and is filled with helium, after the end of life. Thus, taking broken equipment in the depths of space.
8. Robots – repairmen, they will catch the broken satellites and dismantle them for parts. Suitable for operation items will be returned to Earth or installed in other satellites.
9. Space vacuum cleaner from the corporation “Energy”. Is a huge lift to the crematorium, where garbage will be collected and burned.
10. Japanese electrodynamic trawl – magnetic grid will collect over metal parts during filling with debris burn up in the atmosphere. Disadvantage – collects only that magnetized.
11. Harpoon with a trap – a thought came to developers Astrium. The satellite will hunt for debris and shoot it with a harpoon network, then the network will be thrown out with the rubbish to be burned in the atmosphere, and the robot-hunter will continue its cleaning.
12. Tug Terminator Tether – a companion to embed the wire device. After their failure, the coil is unwound and satellite towed to the atmosphere.

In the development of these devices involved almost all countries to explore space, but so far none of them has put into orbit. Scientists predict that the first space cleaners rise to 2016-2018 years.