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The idea essentially involves lasso-ing space junk by shooting a 2,300 foot long electrodynamic tether at the object from a spacecraft, and dragging it down into the atmosphere.

Historically, the federal government has never allowed a purely private company to design, build and own a major transportation rail system with foreign technology, with predominantly foreign investment and with no specific federal or state government regulation or rules for the newer electrodynamic technology with only foreign entities certifying its safety.

The drag comes partly from the way the conductive film interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field and with plasma in the ionosphere, creating an electrodynamic force, said Rob Hoyt, founder and president of Tethers Unlimited, which makes the device.

AI would also likely need to make use of the quantum and electrodynamic perturbations that scientists are presently filtering out.

“So this is an experiment to show that we have all the parts working for an electrodynamic system.”