• About
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Privacy
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Updeets India
  • Home
  • Bulletin
    • International
    • National
    • Sports
    • Featured
  • Lifestyle
    • Food
    • Health
    • Travel
    • People
    • Others
  • Entertainment
    • Fact Zone
    • Gaming
    • Movies & Music
  • Sci & Tech
  • Gadgets
  • Wheels
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Bulletin
    • International
    • National
    • Sports
    • Featured
  • Lifestyle
    • Food
    • Health
    • Travel
    • People
    • Others
  • Entertainment
    • Fact Zone
    • Gaming
    • Movies & Music
  • Sci & Tech
  • Gadgets
  • Wheels
No Result
View All Result
Updeets India
No Result
View All Result
Home Sci & Tech

Russian space agency plans to incinerate space junk with powerful laser beam

Natasha Jane by Natasha Jane
June 13, 2018
in Sci & Tech
0
Russian space agency plans to incinerate space junk with powerful laser beam
0
SHARES
116
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Russian space agency Roscosmos has unveiled its plan to shoot down space debris from a junk-littered low-earth orbit with a three-meter laser ‘cannon.’ If the tests are a success, the method will ensure safer space exploration.

The technology is being developed by scientists at the Research-and-Production Corporation Precision Systems, which is a subdivision of Roscosmos.

In its report to the Russian Academy of Sciences, the company asked to support its research and development, as well as experimental work to create a solid-state laser that will be able to shoot down space junk by vaporizing it with a beam.

The powerful ‘laser cannon’ will be based on a three-meter optical telescope, construction of which is already underway. The telescope, designed to monitor space for satellites and potentially dangerous space junk, will be transformed into an equally giant laser if the project is green-lighted.

A type of solid-base generator will supply power to the laser, the report, seen by RIA Novosti, says. The space trash destroyer will use the process known as “laser ablation” to remove the debris from spaceships or any other junk, like a cosmonaut’s lost glove floating in low-earth orbit, which is between 160 to 2,000 kilometers (100-1,240 miles) above the Earth’s surface. The laser’s energy heats an object that is pierced with a beam until it gradually evaporates.

NASA estimates that there are more than 500,000 pieces of space junk “the size of a marble or larger,” which can be tracked as they are travelling at speeds of up to 17,500 miles per hour around the Earth. It warns that even “a relatively small piece of orbital debris” can inflict damage upon spacecraft and satellites. Of about 500,000 pieces of space debris, 20,000 are “larger than a softball.”

With more countries engaging in space exploration, the task of avoiding collisions with the growing mass of space debris becomes ever more pressing. As the concerns mount, a number of countries have already entertained the sci-fi-like idea of creating a weird mix of a laser weapon and a garbage processor. Back in 2015, Japan’s RIKEN research laboratories said they were planning to add a small laser to a telescope they were developing for the ISS, and scale up the method if it proves to be successful.

The idea has been picked up by China. In February, scientists at the Air Force Engineering University in China published a study suggesting that the junk could be blasted by space-based lasers.

Australia’s EOS Space Systems revealed in March it is also working on the photon pressure laser. However, the laser is designed so it will not incinerate the debris completely, it will just be able “to nudge space objects around, change their orbits.” However, such approach might actually clutter space even more, as there is a chance that objects will break in two, researchers warn.

A long range of proposals, including giant nets and harpoons to grab debris, have been made by scientists over the years. In April, the RemoveDEBRIS device, equipped with a net and a harpoon, arrived at the ISS on board a Falcon 9 rocket.

In 2017, Japan failed an attempt to clear space junk with a 700-meter tether that was created with the help of a fishing company.

Post Views: 755
Tags: cleanjunklaserspace
Previous Post

India to have its 1st police museum in Delhi

Next Post

Delhi air quality beyond ‘severe’ due to dust storm in western India

Related Posts

NASA Flies Large Unmanned Aircraft in Public Airspace without Chase Plane for First Time
Sci & Tech

NASA Flies Large Unmanned Aircraft in Public Airspace without Chase Plane for First Time

June 17, 2018
Artificial nerve system may lend prosthetics sense of touch and robots a sense of touch
Sci & Tech

Artificial nerve system may lend prosthetics sense of touch and robots a sense of touch

June 10, 2018
Food

Thailand to send ‘world’s smelliest fruit’ into space

June 8, 2018
For The First Time, Scientists Have 3D-Printed First Human Corneas
Sci & Tech

For The First Time, Scientists Have 3D-Printed First Human Corneas

June 4, 2018
3D-printed live bacteria creates world’s first “living tattoo”
Sci & Tech

3D-printed live bacteria creates world’s first “living tattoo”

May 30, 2018
Earths first breathable fresh air
Sci & Tech

Earths first breathable fresh air

May 1, 2018
Next Post
Delhi air quality beyond ‘severe’ due to dust storm in western India

Delhi air quality beyond ‘severe’ due to dust storm in western India

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
Beginning of the world

Beginning of the world

April 23, 2018
Suzuki Gixxer 250 (GSX 250R)

Suzuki Gixxer 250 (GSX 250R)

January 24, 2018
Say NO to “Made in China” Foods

Say NO to “Made in China” Foods

February 1, 2018
Mobile phones, TV prices may go up after Budget 2018.

Mobile phones, TV prices may go up after Budget 2018.

February 1, 2018
The fear for Friday the 13th

The fear for Friday the 13th

July 18, 2018
Singalong shuttle electric taxi service is the world’s first to accept singing as only form payment

Singalong shuttle electric taxi service is the world’s first to accept singing as only form payment

July 18, 2018
American tourist takes unexploded WWII munition to Vienna Airport

American tourist takes unexploded WWII munition to Vienna Airport

July 18, 2018
89-carat Yellow Diamond Worth Rs 90 Crores Unearthed In Africa

89-carat Yellow Diamond Worth Rs 90 Crores Unearthed In Africa

July 12, 2018

Recent news

The fear for Friday the 13th

The fear for Friday the 13th

July 18, 2018
Singalong shuttle electric taxi service is the world’s first to accept singing as only form payment

Singalong shuttle electric taxi service is the world’s first to accept singing as only form payment

July 18, 2018
Updeets India

© 2018 Updeets india - Stay tuned for more deets.

Navigate Site

  • About
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Privacy

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Bulletin
    • International
    • National
    • Sports
    • Featured
  • Entertainment
    • Fact Zone
    • Gaming
    • Movies & Music
  • Lifestyle
    • Food
    • Health
    • Travel
    • People
    • Others
  • Sci & Tech
  • Gadgets
  • Wheels

© 2018 Updeets india - Stay tuned for more deets.