The case for a SpaceX Starship laser ablation platform for orbital debris management

1 · Eric Winnington · Sept. 18, 2022, midnight
SpaceX’s Starship program as a platform for specialised load-outs has many potential applications: Tanker variants for orbital refuelling, Crew variant for Dear Moon mission and dedicated satellite launcher for the Starlink satellite constellation deployment being the variants we already know about. With the latest discussion about Orbital debris fields, I suggest it is time to discuss about another variant: a dedicated laser ablation Starship variant for de-orbiting or destroying 1 to 10 cm siz...