Fishing debris in space

[Chip Fetrow]

The great news is, most of the space junk IS going in the same  
direction, in pretty much the same orbit.  If it is faster, it is  
higher, if it is slower, it is lower.  It is in pretty much the same  
direction because of the efficiencies of launching it into orbit.

It COULD be orbited in the other direction, but it would cost nearly  
twice as much to get it into orbit.

--chip

On Feb 5, 2011, at 1:00 PM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:

> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 17:41:32 +0000
> From: Philip Miller Tate <Philmt59 at aol.com>
> To: Tacos AMRAD <tacos at amrad.org>
> Subject: Re: Fishing debris in space
>
> Well, only if the debris is moving in the same direction as the
> net... If in the opposite direction, they meet at twice orbital
> velocity, unless somebody had the presence of mind to direct all the
> debris the same way.
>
> Phil M1GWZ