Article: Tractor beams could tidy space waste

[Tomo3000]

You can view the page at http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/content.php?551-Tractor-beams-could-tidy-space-waste

 

[Tpex]

so it can only push? not pull?

 

[XaXasTHoC]

so it can only push? not pull?

lol didnt you bother to read the article?

"A spacecraft fitted with a laser would fire a low-power beam at a thruster fitted on another craft to attract, repel or steer it in another direction. Pushing a spacecraft away is a relatively simple matter, but more complex designs using mirrors are needed to use a beam to tug one towards the laser"

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627585.900-laser-tractor-beams-to-tidy-up-space-junk.html

 

[Tpex]

Oh thanks, seems I missed the part of where the thruster was placed, now Star Wars with the real Tractor beam: The Millennium Falcon gets hit with a thruster which hooks on then only do they pull it in