A Bi-Directional Plasma Thruster Could Deorbit Space Junk Safely

A Bi-Directional Plasma Thruster Could Deorbit Space Junk Safely

There are plenty of labs working on solutions to Kessler Syndrome, where there’s so much debris in low Earth orbit that rockets are no longer capable of reaching it without being hit with hypersonic parts of defunct equipment. While we haven’t yet gotten to the point where we’ve lost access to space, there will come a day where that will happen if we don’t do something about it. A new paper from Kazunori Takahashi of Tohoku University in Japan l…