Tungsten dust cloud: New radical idea proposed to clean up space junk
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 09:30
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has been following space flight knows we have a big problem on our hands; one that is growing worse every year. Its space junk, the detritus left over from fifty years of both manned and unmanned space missions that has grown, like the islands of junk out in the middle of our major oceans, into a major navigational hazard. But now, there is a new proposal to create a cloud of tungsten to bring it all down.
