Think of all the dead satellites in orbit (drool.....)

Originally Posted by bigburtchino

Here's a company that is out front on this subject.
Planetary Resources

They are doing because the amount of money you can siphon off governments ans communication companies would be ENORMOUS...the scrap value would be trivial. The debris has to be tracked to make sure that some like a 1 inch piece or so doesn't hit a satellite or the space station at like 17,500 MPH....ie it would be BAD. They track somewhere in the neighborhood of 100K objects that size and there are SEVERAL companies trying to figure out how to deorbit that stuff....basically cleaning up the mess that has been left out there and exacerbated by collisions of the small chunks.

the $$$ would be ENORMOUS.