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Laser space brooms haha. Or drone ion thrusters that can latch onto things and push them. Not sure if there is an exothermic rocket that is electric with high impulse (not take forever)
The drone thrusters is from the show The Expanse haha
Who is responsible for covering damages caused by this satellite?
Depending on who you talk to, much more natural rock falls to earth every day (asteroids etc) than satellites. A hundred pound rock might make a local newspaper headline but only if someone sees it.
Space Law is a developing and mostly uncodified field of International Law, but it is generally considered very uncontroversial that the nation(s)/cosporation(s) responsible for causing the satellite to go out of control should foot the bill for any cleanup/damages. It could be the entity that made a faulty satellite or the entity that failed to launch it to the proper orbit or even an entity that created the debris that caused another satellite to lose orbit.
One could try to blast this thing into multiple smaller pieces, most of which would likely burn up in the atmosphere.
If it doesn't work, the failed attempt shouldn't increase the risk for anybody.
If you're talking about radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) used on spacecraft, they are limited to deep space (Voyager, Cassini, etc) and long duration planetary missions (Curiosity rover) only. Only a handful of 1960's military satellites used RTGs on Earth orbit [0].
RTGs also tend to be rather small, the environmental impact of the small amount of Pu-238 shouldn't be very large (compared to nuclear testing or nuclear incidents for example). There may be Hydrazine (propellant) or other nasty environmental hazards on spacecraft that would be more significant.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
Rocket debris in Kazakhstan. Which I am always looking for reasons to post.
This is that Korolev cross with the four boosters maxing a cross pattern (at least that's what I remember this from) also a random cool thing is the yo-yo despin with the strings/mass pretty sweet.
