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As government and commercial entities expand their activities in the orbital space surrounding Earth, the simultaneous increase in orbital debris causes new challenges related to space safety and sustainability. The orbital debris population contains a significant number of small, hard-to-track fragments that are scattered across larger regions of space and pose a potentially lethal threat to spacecraft components. We propose to devise new passive dust cloud systems as a cost-effective solution for the active removal of small orbital debris.
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