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HikeEveryMountain t1_iqx5syg wrote

Reply to comment by Brusion in After DART: Using the first full-scale test of a kinetic impactor to inform a future planetary defense mission by EricFromOuterSpace

And you can always do a series of kinetic impactors for increased power, like a train of StarLink satellites, slowly but systematically smashing it off course

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Apostastrophe t1_iqx8m93 wrote

With the advent of a super heavy launch vehicle that can be refilled in orbit like Starship, we could also just make a gravity tractor.

A fully expendable, fully refilled SS could get a beast of a gravity tractor out there.

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