Why hasn't BFI or Waste Management get in the a bidding thing to see you can come up with the best possible way to collect the junk.
Nobody collects it but the various space programs do keep track of it as best they can. In effect NASA coordinates all the international efforts through a specific office that takes in information from the Russian, EUropean, Indian, Japanese and CHinese space agencies, as well a contributions from various military intelligence units, and other public and private groups. Its a mess to get and make the information useful but all new satellites, especially manned spacecraft use the info as best they can to avoid collisions.
So farbfi waste no one has thought up a reasonable way to collect the debris but new designs of hardware are expected to lessen the amount of newly added orbiting debris as satellites finish their useful lifetimes. THe cost of de-orbiting is starting to become an important design factor.
THere are symposiums and seminars about the problem, and you came close to a good idea. There should be an X Prize of millions of dollars put up for the best feasible idea with proven capabilities, as there is for private rocketry, orbiters, lunar landers, etc. But no one is in shape to tender a bid yet. A big prize may be the way to go.
Because it would be unimaginably expensive and thebfi wastere's really nothing to do with the space junk that's why it is space junk it wasn't economically reasonably or maybe just scientifically sensible to do anything with it. It is also just going to accumulate more and get more and more expensive just to collect it.
I read an article that stated a series of powerful lasers are planned around the world that would reduce this junk into particles that are too small to be harmful. I don't remember the source. But it was from the internet.
Where's the profit?
Who would pay for it?
How would they collect it, with a big net?
Space junk is spread out over a huge three-dimensional area.
Think.
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