This image shows trajectory of (a) position and (b) orientation of pliers under repetitive laser irradiation without tracking. Grey lines indicate the projections of the trajectory in the respective coordinate planes. Credit: © the authors doi: 10.1117/1.OE.56.1.011007
Space debris from completed missions – inactive satellites, lens covers, fragments from spaceship disengagements – pose a serious and ongoing threat to active communication and navigation satellites used by billions of people on Earth. An article published by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, in Optical Engineering describes a new approach whereby debris orbiting in space could be pushed into Earth’s atmosphere by laser impulses, causing it to burn up.
High definition model of a set of pliers taken...
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