Uhh..Is this a good idea? We’ve all seen science fiction movies about tractor beams pulling in space ships and the like. Now, they may actually begin to attempt on a small scale to make an actual tractor beam:
When Arx Pax unveiled its “hoverboard” last year, we had a hunch that this was but the first demonstration of the company’s new magnetic field technology. Why was Arx Pax really messing around with magnets? For one, to build a tractor beam.
Let’s find out more on what they have in mind on page 2
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How is that giant $#%&!@* telescope a small beam?
Not sure how this applies to space right now. You can’t tractor a object from another spacecraft. The 2 objects would be pulled together. The tractor beam works in sci fi, because those use advanced propulsion and are static in space.