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Technique for de-orbiting small debris from the near-earth space environment
NRL
System and method for inducing rapid reentry of orbital debris including determining a spatial extent of the orbital debris, and deploying dust to the orbital debris to enhance the drag on the orbital debris.
Inventors: 
Ganguli, Gurudas; Chappie, Scott S.; Roudakov, Leonid I.; Crabtree, Christopher E.