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Experimental verification of high energy laser-generated impulse for remote laser control of space debris

Scientific Reports, ISSN: 2045-2322, Vol: 8, Issue: 1, Page: 8453
2018
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Walking along a beach one may notice debris being washed ashore from the vast oceans. Then, turning your head up at night you even might noticed a shooting star or a bright spot passing by. Chances are, that you witnessed space debris, endangering future space flight in lower earth orbit. If it was possible to turn cm-sized debris into shooting stars the problem might be averted. Unfortunately, these fragments counting in the 100 thousands are not controllable. To possibly regain control we demonstrate how to exert forces on a free falling debris object from a distance by ablating material with a high energy ns-laser-system. Thrust effects did scale as expected from simulations and led to speed gains above 0.3 m/s per laser pulse in an evacuated micro-gravity environment.

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Lorbeer, Raoul-Amadeus; Zwilich, Michael; Zabic, Miroslav; Scharring, Stefan; Eisert, Lukas; Wilken, Jascha; Schumacher, Dennis; Roth, Markus; Eckel, Hans-Albert

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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