I have long held a fantasy of designing a solar powered debris clearing microsatellite to get the small stuff.  Something along the lines the ham radio operators' CubeSats and later Amsat designs.  I thought I saw a JPL design once.  The reality is: Japan pioneers debris-killing kamikaze satellites Russia Today 16 March, 2009, 12:10 http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-03-16/Japan_pioneers_debris-killing... Satellite Smashers Space-faring nations: Clean up low Earth orbit or you're grounded. Air and Space Museum March 1, 2008 http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/space_debris.html?c=y&page=1 Fifth European Conference on Space Debris http://www.congrex.nl/09a03/ Wiki entry on impact debris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie_Williams#Significant_debris_impact_event... NASA Orbital Debris Program http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/ Cubesats and Amsat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/information/faqs/Intro_sats.pdf http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/AboutAmsat/amsat_history.php - Kurt