WASHINGTON: Scientists in Tokyo have proposed a way to rid the Earth’s orbit of space debris using a super-wide telescope and a fiber-based laser system.
In a paper published in the latest issue of Acta Astronautica, researchers at the Riken research institute in Tokyo proposed a way to end the growing problem of space debris by shooting them down with lasers.
The method would track space debris using the Extreme Universe Space Observatory’s (EUSO) super-wide-field telescope, mounted on the International Space Station. The telescope, which is based aboard the space station’s Japanese Experiment Module, was designed to detect high-energy cosmic rays.
The study proposes using EUSO to spot the debris and then shooting them with powerful laser pulses from a high-efficiency fiber laser, also aboard the space station. The pulses would knock objects into the Earth’s atmosphere, where they would burn up.
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