Dealing with ISS trash

http://www.astrium.eads.net/en/articles/atv-2-iss-international-space-station-reboost.html

This article indicates that 1,000 Newtons is applied during the ATV orbital adjustments. Not sure if more has been done but that's a start. I also see no reason not to make the mass driver relatively small, with small mass objects being used for the driver, so as to keep forces and electrical requirements down.

Well currently the progress ships make it there, and soon the SpaceX ships may be replacing them. If the ships are too small, once converted to the occasional 6 sided hatch, to use effectively, you can reduce the the hatches to a front, back, and then 2 or 3 more hathes coming off the center. And if still too small, hopefully you can still add a front and back hatch and then still grow it outward. If some sections of the ISS allow, possibly you could even put a two sided between modules growing the ship internally as well.
Brooks

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