Space junk is a big problem. Over the past few decades, more and more garbage has floated in the Earth's orbit. Space agencies around the world have to consider space junk every time they launch equipment to satellite. NASA even installed a special laser pointer sensor on the International Space Station to track the number of hits that were hit by tiny space debris.
Now, the Russian National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Roscosmos) is developing a powerful laser cannon for launching into space, hoping to gasify potentially harmful space debris to make space exploration safer.
According to reports, the Russian National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Roscosmos) said that the laser cannon is based on the three-meter optical telescope currently under construction. The laser can vaporize potentially dangerous debris by focusing the laser beam.
This plan is really unbelievable, which is completely different from the way we recently saw the cleanup of space junk. This is an incredibly ambitious plan that is very different from most of the space junk cleaning concepts we have seen recently.
But this is not the first time that such a laser pointer solution has emerged, because China has proposed a similar system earlier this year. In February of this year, researchers at the China Air Force Engineering University published a research report saying that space Garbage may be destroyed by the laser pointer, but the difference is in the concept of China, where the laser cannon is also on the track.