Posted on 02/11/2009 6:52:46 PM PST by Righting
Big satellites collide 500 miles over Siberia
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Two big communications satellites collided in the first-ever crash of two intact spacecraft in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds and posing a slight risk to the international space station
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10¢ deposit on these suckers in Vermont. They don’t have these problems.
lol
Could this be a cover story for some kind of satellite killer? Either another satellite or some other sort of device? I thought NORAD watched these critters that were orbiting overhead pretty close. Especially ones that are big and communicated.
Not a glancing blow. Not a brush-off. A dead-center bulls-eye.
“Nothing to see here, move along...”
Spy sattteellllites that didn’t see each other???
Do Iridium sat phones still function?
Does “Iridium” mean Keyhole?
If so, did the Ruskies reposition one of their dying birds into its path?
Didn’t Iran just launch a sattelite last week ?
Maybe we just punched it lights out.
Geez, I’d love that, even if it remains “classified information”.
In short order those nails would create a virtually inpenetrable "debris field" all around the planet.
Not that you couldn't get a missile through the field, you'd need certain advanced pieces of equipment to do the job right ~ the kind of equipment the North Koreans, Chinese, Pakistanis, Indians, Iranians, and so on don't have!
So, let's say they laugh at the barrel of nails thing ~ next best deal would be to smack an old Russian communications satellite with an old American communications satellite.
I gather you have some background/experience/knowledge in this field.
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