NationStates Jolt Archive

With advances in our space technology, we have built two space junk retrieval craft. With your permission we will pick up your old satellites, no longer used weapons platforms, discarded fuel tanks, space trash, and other junk in space. We intend to clear earth orbit of orbital junk. Our new detection array on our space station can detect junk up to 2cm in length. Please let us know what you would like to be picked up and disposed of. Larger space junk can be towed to one of our orbital processing asteroid factories where it will be broken down into pieces and turned into metals and other materials.

Hopefully, we will acquire new technology and clean up the near earth environment.

Pythogria has a lot of space junk over us that has drifted in from our nieghbour's sattelite program.

The space garbage truck goes to clean the junk. Three long metal arms stretch out with what looks a large aerogel blob in them. They start waving around. The junk sticks to the blobs. Then they are pulled in and a new layer of aerogel is added after the old one is peeled off. After this the space laser broom goes to work. It sweeps back and forth vaporizing the smaller pieces of junk. Nonfunctional satellites are pulled into the hold with tethers with magnetic grapples attached to them. Have a nice spring cleaning. We fly back to the asteroid factory. The blobs of aerogel are fed into the recycler where the aerogel is separated to be reused and the metals are recycled. The larger empty external fuel tanks and pieces of junk are hauled back by a second ship to be recycled.

Pythogria has the following to say about this technology.

"Wow."

The space garbage trucks start another cleaning run. It firsts goes around the Commonalitarianism space station and clears up surrounding junk, then it refuels and heads to the three large industrial asteroid factories cleaning up bits of metal and rock left over from construction. These are fed back into the factories. More mined hydrogen fuel is added to its tanks. Then it heards for LEO and starts picking up old satellites, rubber capsules from unfinished space hotels, bits of meteor, antennas, old rockets, steel rebar from space construction projects, a space capsule with a dead dog from an old rocket launch, empty space suits, a nonfunctional solar power satellite is dragged away to be fixed by the asteroid factories, an abandoned small station is headed for the recyclers, left over pmt science experiment rockets from college students, abandoned external fuel tanks, and other garbage are scooped up and carried away. Slowly the skies around the Pacific ocean clear up. Not all of the garbage is gone, but most of it around the Commonalitarianism stations is cleaned up.

Pythogria would like to buy production rights for this.

PMT
Garbage and Salvage Ship for cleanup and rescue of ships.
Length 200 Feet
Width 40 feet
Height 40 feet
Weight 2000 tons
Cargo Hold 400 tons
Hauling Capacity-- 2000 tons weight of ship with sonofusion thermal engines.
Equipment: 3 Aerogel Mitts-- these contain a sticky substance for catching objects, 2 Laser Sweepers-- wideband low intensity laser designed to vaporize small objects-- asteroids up to 8 cm in size, sweeps like a broom destroying small objects in a 200 foot radius around the ship, 3 Magnetic Grapples for hauling satellites, 2 Heavy Lift space cranes, Tethering and counterweight equipment for hauling large objects. Strap on counter engines.
Engines: 4 Sonofusion Thermal Engines-- a derivative of nuclear thermal engines.
Auxiliary Equipment: 1 Short range rescue bubble 5 person capacity. 2 extravehicular 2 person craft for attaching counterweights and engines.
Crew: 10 highly automated. Can carry 25 people on board.
Detection Equipment: Multiphasic radar, Advanced Charge Couple Device Video, Advanced Metal Detection Equipment, Motion Detection Equipment, Radiotelemetry, and other systems. Neutron scanner (a derivative of sonofusion technology) -- detector that scans down to the atomic level for components of objects. It will systematically identify the elements in an object. Can detect radioactive, biological, and other dangerous materials to tag for special pickup.
Price $300 Million with, $30 Billion for production rights.

The two space garbage ships heads for the moon, slowly boosting until it reaches orbit. There it passes over several small settlements. It grabs an old space billboard whose electronics no longer work, a nonfunctional deep space telescope, sucks in a lot of garbage included unmarked cosmic funeral capsules, old golf balls launched from the international space station, rubber tubes, bolts, rocket motors, beryllium casings, old satellites, old space telescopes, nuclear engines from satellites, and a wide variety of garbage.

Then it heads back to earth orbit where it checks the International Space Junk Catalog, only over 10,000 more objects to go classified as space junk. They will be busy for a long time cleaning up the earth and moon. Meanwhile, the Commonalitarianism refurbishes the Scrubble space telescope and sets up a giant refurbished space billboard reading Buy Dynamic Motors with a picture of a multi-fuel hybrid Elephant SUV on the front. This can be seen from the ground at night in most cities at the equator.

PMT
Garbage and Salvage Ship for cleanup and rescue of ships.
Length 200 Feet
Width 40 feet
Height 40 feet
Weight 2000 tons
Cargo Hold 400 tons
Hauling Capacity-- 2000 tons weight of ship with sonofusion thermal engines.
Equipment: 3 Aerogel Mitts-- these contain a sticky substance for catching objects, 2 Laser Sweepers-- wideband low intensity laser designed to vaporize small objects-- asteroids up to 8 cm in size, sweeps like a broom destroying small objects in a 200 foot radius around the ship, 3 Magnetic Grapples for hauling satellites, 2 Heavy Lift space cranes, Tethering and counterweight equipment for hauling large objects. Strap on counter engines.
Engines: 4 Sonofusion Thermal Engines-- a derivative of nuclear thermal engines.
Auxiliary Equipment: 1 Short range rescue bubble 5 person capacity. 2 extravehicular 2 person craft for attaching counterweights and engines.
Crew: 10 highly automated. Can carry 25 people on board.
Detection Equipment: Multiphasic radar, Advanced Charge Couple Device Video, Advanced Metal Detection Equipment, Motion Detection Equipment, Radiotelemetry, and other systems. Neutron scanner (a derivative of sonofusion technology) -- detector that scans down to the atomic level for components of objects. It will systematically identify the elements in an object. Can detect radioactive, biological, and other dangerous materials to tag for special pickup.
Price $300 Million with, $30 Billion for production rights.

Pythogria will pay $180 million for six of these sattelites.

These are ships about the size of a United States navy salvage ship. They cost about $300 million for one of them alone.

These are ships about the size of a United States navy salvage ship. They cost about $300 million for one of them alone.

Oh, whoops. Sorry. Our order was garbled.

We will pay $900 million for three of them.

OOC: Hehe, are you gonna use them on Kraven sattelites?

OOC: Hehe, are you gonna use them on Kraven sattelites?

OOC: Hmm... maybe! (kidding).

Pythogria,
Three new ships roll out of the orbital asteroid factories and fly over to your stations. Thanks so much for your order.

Regards,

Minister of Science Zarkovia

We bring in over a thousand dead satellites into our orbital factories. Most are recycled for their components. One hundred of them are refurbished and let out to form a new satellite network for the Commonalitarianism. Our old satellite network was destroyed by Red Tide2. Also 20 are let out to form an international free satellite network for public use by developing countries. A large number of new modules are added to our space station from 7000 tons of recycled junk we have pulled together.

We have purchased a giant geodesic dome habitat from American Privateer for $50 Billioin dollars. We also have purchased thousands of modified external fuel tanks from American Privateer at cost. We boost the station to the construction area of the geodesic dome between the moon and mars. We attach our station to the giant dome and expand with thousands of external fuel tanks and other garbage. It is a giant recycled space station. Then we add extra oxygen tanks, biospheric minifarms, and a recycling regenerative life support to our space salvage ships. We send them out to the asteroid fields where they collect space slag, mining tailings, blasted rock chunks, and other left over metals and rocks from mining operations. We carry large amounts of this in bags which we attach to the salvage ships. This junk is used to help shield the external fuel tanks. Many runs are made. Now we have a giant shielded recycled space station. It is a giant frightening looking maze, but it works... Three more salvage ships are built to constantly scour the system for junk to bring back to build the station...

In a separate agreement Axis Nova has agreed to provide us with space scooters, nuclear thermal heat generators from the old nuclear material, fuel cell stacks, and simple electronics in exchange for some of our space junk. We have sent them four thousand tons of junk. Many of our modules now have two man space scooters, fuel cells, and there is now a new heating system for our space station in the older modules. We are progressing. In a short amount of time most of the junk around earth and the moon will be gone.

The International Underwater Salvage Cooperative has gotten a massive influx of gold, gems, silver, jet, diamond, rubies, and other riches from its Scandinvan expedition. They are going to make a major investment, being one of the underwriters for the space salvage. They build a 300 meter salvage ship capable of going to the inner planets and solar system. It is huge. They are going to clear mars orbit of its debris. It costs them the equivalent of 60 tons of gold sold at 600 an ounce and 3 tons of diamonds to build this ship. It will go out and recover or fix deep space probes like the Mariner, Pioneer, Viking 1 Orbiter, and Mars Observer. Also it will collect old experimental propulsion units like solar sail and ion engine test beds. The data from the fixed probes orbiting mars, venus, saturn, and other planets will be fed to the station to collect data.

In addition, they think there is a mission to mars which never quite made it, a large ship containing astronauts. There is also an indication of a no longer functional space elevator, and station which they wish to investigate. A ghost ship and station.