Space junk is such a risk that Russia is also reportedly developing a $2 billion spacecraft that would sweep the orbital space around Earth from satellite debris, according to China’s state-run Xinhua news service and Russia’s Interfax news agency.
“The corporation promised to clean up the space in ten years by collecting about 600 defunct satellites on the same geosynchronous orbit and sinking them into the ocean subsequently,” said Victor Sinyavsky from RSC Energia, Xinhua quoted from an Interfax report.
SPACE.com – Russia Wants Nuclear-Powered Spaceships and Space Debris Shields
– I’d so much rather they salvaged them for parts in orbit. They’d be good for shielding if nothing else.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 