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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 07:49:24 JST Ars Technica

   There are 2,000-plus dead rockets in orbit—here’s a rare view of one of them

   A Japanese company becomes the first to approach a piece of space junk in low-Earth orbit.

   https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/there-are-2000-plus-dead-rockets-in-orbit-heres-a-rare-view-of-one-of-them/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • Joel VanderWerf (joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 08:16:55 JST Joel VanderWerf

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     @arstechnica

     Now I am imagining a sort of low-
     Earth orbit Wall-E puttering around in all the floating space junk, laser-cutting off chunks, and crushing them into bricks to build an orbiting tower.

   • WesDym (wesdym@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 09:22:40 JST WesDym

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     @arstechnica 'Planetes' live-action version getting closer.

   • Daniel Marks (profdc9@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 11:34:30 JST Daniel Marks

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     @arstechnica I have this idea of a satellite pushing itself up to higher orbits successively by pushing backwards on spacejunk, deorbiting them.