Theres 1 or 2 payloads a year that might be willing to pay that

Space isnt empty. But what it has is quite .. spaced out...

So it depends how fast you are going how worried you need to be.

The space station gets hit by micrometeorites, no reason why Voyager or a ship cant.

We've no idea how a deflector shield would work.

So we'll be looking at armor/shielding and self sealing, plus potentially lasers to pew pew small particles out of the way, if we can detect them.

Scifi has some cool things including large ships that use a whole bunch of ice on the front to absorb the damage

We've companies and missions already looking at space garbage collection

Paper is UK, talking about changes to UK law in a country ruled by the Tories who are bought and paid for by fossil fuel companies....

Those crazy drunk American astronauts will stop at nothing

No there are many other projects working towards actual fusion power plants like ITER etc.

But we absolutely cant wait for those before tackling co2 etc.

No, we're 40+ years away from a working fusion power plant.

We have the tools to solve climate change already , we dont need fusion

What about second baths, we've not had that!

slap a mini Apollo 11 eagle on there and bill me direct...