Laser Ablation Debris Deorbit — 2D Orbital View

A single tracked fragment orbits Earth in this simulator while a ground-based ablation laser fires on it every time it crosses apogee, exactly as proposed "laser broom" active-debris-removal concepts work: each pulse train vaporizes a sliver of the surface, and the recoiling plume delivers a small retrograde impulse. Because the burn always lands at the orbit's highest point, apogee stays almost fixed while perigee is driven steadily lower, pass after pass, until it dips into the atmosphere and the fragment re-enters. This 2D build renders the orbital plane face-on with a live perigee/apogee altitude history chart alongside it — drag to pan and scroll to zoom the orbit view. Adjust laser power, the ablation momentum-coupling coefficient, the tracking dwell time per pass, and the fragment's mass to see how each one changes the impulse budget and the number of passes needed to clear a piece of orbital debris.