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Could it at least be a partial shield to help slow things down?

And maybe not directly on the station itself, but perhaps as a cloud of drone-ship defensive satellites to provide a defensive array around the space station -- almost like a fleet of smaller boats providing a perimeter around a larger aircraft carrier?



Well done, you created a cloud of debris to hit the ISS instead of just a single fragment.


Even if that's true, then wouldn't that mean that any impact is now distributed, and the severity of any individual impact is now mitigated?

If any kinetic energy can be divided and distributed amongst multiple projectiles (rather than a single point), then doesn't that lessen its severity?




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