Comment by craftyguy

What? It's only a 'weapon' if you intentionally de-orbit debris with a real chance of hitting something of value. We have a hard time calculating where current space junk will de-orbit because we don't control any variables. With this thing, we would control enough variables to calculate when/where the space junk will impact the earth (assuming it doesn't burn up..), with sufficient accuracy that we could (for example) always hit the middle of the Pacific.