I was watching For All Mankind the other day and they mentioned a method of redirecting an asteroid called "ion beam shepherding". Coincidentally I'd only learnt about "ion beam shepherding" around the day before.
I had set up Google Scholar to send me a notification whenever one of my few published papers is cited. And I had just received one about using automatic differentiation to plan ion beam shepherding.
I think I'm now going to use this as an excuse to say that my work has been used in Rocket Science :)
"Contactless space debris removal from the geostationary orbit protected region" I.A. Nikolichev, V.V. Svotina
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576523006495
(The citation is in the full paper but not in the abridged version on the web site.)
FWIW I think it'd be great if they screwed up the asteroid redirection badly, wiped out most of the population of Earth, and the story pivoted to a realistic post-apocalyptic one.
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