that'd be a really strong laser lol.

I'm imagining this as a solution for the 1 million+ objects the size of flecks of paint. maybe the ones as big as a marble.

to boil a whole satellite would be hardcore but also insane

powerful enough.

I can imagine paint flecks destroying the ISS, so which one do you want: a solution with risks or risks without solution?

you don't actually collect it, you use a laser to turn small deadly things into significantly less dense, less deadly clouds of plasma.

EDIT: the same people who launch their own commercial satellites have a financial incentive to pay for the solution to make their satellites safer.

but what if the one thing you send up there is responsible for eliminating 100x it's mass in disparate debris?

I guess a cloud of hot vapor hits softer than a solid

lmao