[maine-iac7]

I’m not one for making a law for everything under the sun - but we’ve got a lot of ‘stuff’ up there already and there’s going to be a lot more.

Seems like these things should be required to have a “I’m dying!” signal and then a guidance system to at least make sure it crashes in the ocean....

[driftdiver]

“Seems like these things should be required to have a “I’m dying!” signal and then a guidance system to at least make sure it crashes in the ocean”

From what I understand they do assuming that function still works. The recent chinese anti-sat tests have left a lot of junk in orbit. I wonder if we have lost any satellites due to this stuff.

[AntiKev]

It’s not that easy.

[Calvin Locke]

One of the end-of-life proposals is for the satellite to spool out a drag line towards Earth, creating, surprise, drag, to drop the satellite into the atmosphere...

The shuttle, for instance, only slows down a couple or three hundred mph from its orbital speed to begin its descent. That's what, 1 or 2 percent of its velocity?

[blackdog]

Remember the fun during the skylab injection into the atmosphere?