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Previous studies have shown that extended length Earth-oriented tethers in the geosynchronous (GEO) region can be used to re-orbit satellites to disposal orbits. One such approach involves the extension of a GEO based tether, collection of a debris object, and retraction of the tether, which transfers the retracted configuration to a higher energy orbit for debris disposal. The re-extension of the...
Congressional language in the 1998 US Senate Armed Services Committee authorization bill directed ‘... the Secretary of the (United States) Air Force to undertake a design study of a system that could catalog and track debris down to one centimeter in size out to 1000 kilometer in altitude.’ The US Air Force Research Laboratory, in conjunction with other US National Laboratories and the National Aeronautics...
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