[Question] Dealing with Space Junk

[Trebuchet-Launch]

I presume you could get that one claw mod and grab chunks of debris, then mutually deorbit. I have a minor amount of junk in orbit around either Kerbin or Kerbol, but most was impacted into something else.

With the upcoming NTR engine in 0.17, it might be worthwhile to build a de-orbiter vehicle. What the game really needs, though, is a laser broom - which doesn't explode the target, but gradually deorbits it through radiation pressure and/or vaporizing parts of the surface as 'propellant'.

[khearn]

pebblegarden has an excellent video of his method for deorbiting junk.

He used landing legs around the front of his ship to make a grapple. Unfortunately, the only time he shows the ship itself is in the dark, so it's hard to get a good view of it.