Chinese 'space cleaner' spotted grabbing and throwing away old satellite

Deutsche Welle ^ | February 9, 2022 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Recently, China lied about near-collisions between a couple of SpaceX' and China's birds. Russia made a stink about SpaceX' craft doing autonomous docking with the ISS, which is ridiculous, but has been pretty quiet about that and other things after a long-delayed (by years) module arrived last year and nearly destroyed the ISS (although of course the spineless lefties spun it differently from the actual physical spin of the ISS caused by the Russian space trash).

[Scarlett156]

Haaahahahahaaaa! The plan is working!

[plain talk]

[SunkenCiv]

• U.S. Didn't ID Near Crash Between SpaceX and Chinese Space Station, Despite Complaint | Alex J. Rouhandeh | December 30, 2021

[SunkenCiv]

Sounds like a proof of concept field test.

[frank ballenger]

I would make a guess it was 1958 or around then that this was on the cover of a science fiction magazine. Along with the space prospectors in the asteroid belt.

[bgill]

“Is China’s space debris dangerous?” No more dangerous than US space debris or any other country’s.

Where was it thrown away and what day is space garbage pick up?

[Sarcazmo]

I concur.

I imagine it could drive up and supersync an operational one just as easy.

[ASOC]

Not SciFi - tugs are a business opportunity

https://spacenews.com/space-tugs-as-a-service-in-orbit-service-providers-are-bracing-for-consolidation/

[SunkenCiv]

The Chinese have the same reckless disregard for humans on Earth as they do for Chinese on Earth.

https://www.businessinsider.com/iss-swerves-avoid-debris-chinese-satellite-space-junk-2021-11

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/16mlt2/chinas_space_disaster_video_on_march_14_1996_a/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/chinese-rocket-crash-land-nasa-b1844514.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Q6azI6Ocs

[SunkenCiv]

Just be careful googling “tugs” and “business” in the same search line...

[entropy12]

All space debris is destined by laws of physics to enter earth’s atmosphere and burn up.

[Stingray51]

I saw this episode of “Space Force”; they had a chimpstronaut that ate the space dog and then got captured by a Chinese satellite. It was the only funny episode of that dismal show.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What? You don't get pretty pictures of tugboats?

[wally_bert]

I thought of Adam Quark.

[dfwgator]

Operation Vacu-Suck!

[bigbob]

One man’s space trash is another man’s satellite...

[SunkenCiv]

There was ASAT research by both the USSR and US by 1970, but I think there’s a treaty, and we know how effective those are. :^)

[China Clipper]

I thought of Adam Quark.

I thought of “Moon Raker”.

[RandallFlagg]

I thought of, “You Only Live Twice.”