Posted on 01/28/2020 10:20:22 AM PST by Red Badger
I predict fender bender !
If both are speeding along at close to the same speed, it’ll likely mean a slight change in trajectory, little paint scraping and be gone.
It wont be a head on collison is what I’m saying.
Quark
That’s it!
Sounds like a great job for a US Space Force vehicle.
“What happens if the retired space telescope and former spy satellite crash into each other? “
Well.... the couple will mate and all of a sudden there will be hundreds of baby satellites.
Do satellites have insurance? Would they call Geico if they got hit?
"Salvage 1," starring Andy Griffith.
Regards,
Currently, there are about 5,000 satellites in orbit around Earth, around 2,000 of which are still operational according to the most recent report from the European Space Agency.
And SpaceX, Boeing and now Amazon hope to drastically improve satellite internet, one batch of low-orbiting satellites at a time. The most recent SpaceX launch added 60 satellites to their active fleet, an early fraction of the nearly 12,000 the company plans to set into orbit in the coming months. This is the result of the creation of teledesic by Gates, the money, Boeing, the satellite builder, Craig McCaw, for the devices needed, and the US government for airspace in the early 1990’s.
And someone is worried about two coming close to each other? It’s already a dump up there.
rwood
I'm surprised Space is not the new frontier for environmental activism.
How do we know that they are set for a head on collision ? Maybe this is a glancing pass. It doesn’t say what their speed is ‘relative’ to each other.
I think we all have the coverage — it s on the policy listed as your Ping-Pong risk. Usually offered as part of your pinball machine benefit.
They’ll de-orbit, eventually...
That one I never saw!
Solar furnaces and 3d printers. Don’t throw away stuff that runs tens of thousands per pound to get into space.
There should be an international agreement that all new satellites have a decommissioning jet that will be activated once the equipment is no longer usable and will cause it to burn up in the atmosphere above the Pacific ocean..................
Not without oxygen.
That’s what I said as well. I’m pretty sure that most equatorial revolving satellites orbit in the same direction.
Two reasons:
1. no head on collisions.
2. For achieving orbit, less fuel is used in one direction than the other.
Aw, just send up Phil Swift and some Flex Seal...
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