Satellite manufacturers could very reasonably meet the requirements by including a little drag sail.
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A drag sail expedites this process by providing more surface for the gas to hit.
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Once reeled in, a drag sail (seen in the video above) could be deployed to hasten reentry.
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It will be experimenting with something known as a drag sail, designed to slow down spacecraft in orbit.
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Built by HPS GmbH, the NABEO drag sail can be stored in a spacecraft, then deployed once the satellite reaches the end of its orbital life.
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Due to the drag sail, it will deorbit faster than it was left to its own devices and will burn up when it re-enters the atmosphere.
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Instead of diving towards a pre-arranged target, a satellite is lowered gradually into the atmosphere using either what thruster-fuel remains to it or a specially designed drag-sail.
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There's also a third option, in which future satellites are given a drag sail, making them more likely to burn up in our atmosphere than join the Great Space Garbage Patch.
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The University of Surrey Space Centre already has a spacecraft in orbit, with debris-removing technologies such as a harpoon, a net and a drag sail, to carry out experiments, according to reports.
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Along with experimenting with a deployable net, the satellite is also equipped with a harpoon that can spear objects, as well as a drag sail that can help slow down debris and make them fall to Earth faster.
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On Saturday, it carried satellites for Spire, Tyvak, Fleet and the Irvine CubeSat STEM program, as well as the drag sail demonstrator, which is a prototype for technology to clear some of the debris in orbit around the Earth.
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S.-based aerospace manufacturer Rocket Lab completed its first successful commercial launch on Saturday, sending seven spacecraft including "six tiny satellites and a drag sail demonstrator" into orbit aboard a relatively small Electron rocket designed primarily for smallsats and cubesats, Spaceflight Now reported.
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A harpoon can help a space trash collection system spear chunks of junk and what scientists call a drag sail could be attached to future satellites and act like a giant parachute that would slow them down once they are done working and cause them to move toward Earth faster and then burn up sooner in its atmosphere.
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An identical drag sail payload was planned to be included on the RemoveDEBRIS demonstrator.
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They sail on the Dromedary to Tina, and then walk across the Sinai Peninsula to meet the HEI ship Niobe at Suez. Aubrey takes command of Niobe in the Red Sea, with Turkish troops to aid on land. They spot the galley and give chase. Aubrey notices that the galley is using a drag sail to artificially slow its speed.
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And in her efforts to trade with the Formosans she had to withstand the attack of hundreds of armed natives right on top of a typhoon, which she succeeded in riding out on her moorings. But Eamonts captain was a famous fighting man, as the Chinese pirates knew to their cost. In his constant encounters with piratical lorchas Captain Gulliver made use of a drag sail, with which he would suddenly deaden the way of his schooner, and so out-manoeuvre these "Invincibles," as they called themselves. Eamont was also employed in the negotiations for the first commercial treaty with Japan.
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