System 3 Socket rocket

摘要

Space junk can have a small solid-fuel rocket motor attached to it by a de-orbiting craft - requiring only a short burn in the right direction to take it down to a re-entry orbit. The craft could carry many such motors and be resupplied when necessary. The best place to attach the motor would depend on the target. Or a tether may be attached to create atmospheric drag, making the junk fall and burn up.