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You don't need to get rid of all those 8km/s. Just enough to drop down into the atmosphere, the rest is a shooting star.



Remote propulsion by ablation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_broom


yes, that's the only system that makes sense to me for small objects. with a good international policy that prevents ppl from missiles at satellites to show power and, maybe, also one that prevent ppl to put any crap in LEO now it has got that cheap..




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