Posted on 01/26/2008 5:30:14 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Shall I assume it goes over Florida?
Orbits degrade?
Plutonium ?
I would prefer that it crashes right on top of the Borg Cube in the middle of Mecca.
“He said the satellite would create 10 times less debris than the Columbia space shuttle crash in 2003”
One time less is zero. I think what he meant to say is “one tenth the debris”. As it is, it makes absolutely no sense. I suspect the journalist is the one who screwed that up.
“Sue the bastard!!”
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Yeah! Let’s get a restraining order!! That’ll stop it!
Maybe. Maybe Lacrosse?
1) if this is true, why would you expect to get the answer to your question...its a secret
2) why do you presume because its in print that its true?
The second question applies to a whole range of issues in our daily lives today.
Same thing happened in the early 80’s with Skylab. I think it ended up crashing down in the ocean.
Those are about the right size.
RTG’s (Radioisotope Thermal Generators) aka space nuclear power systems, are only used for deep space mission by the US, like Jupitor probes etc where the solar energy is insufficient to power solar cells.
That’s a relief...
Actually, I was wondering if it were this Titan IV failure from 1998 (A-20). http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/launch/titan_iv-20_sum.htm
Nevermind, A-20 was destroyed 40 seconds after liftoff. There was an upper stage failure in 1999 on a Milstar mission. That’s probably it. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/titan/b26/051016history.html
Valid points both.
Didn’t the Chinese destroy a satellite just to show the world that they could do it?
Do you think our government is going to let that go unanswered?
We just want to look good doing it, IMO.
The sky really is falling!
Where it lands will be difficult to predict until the satellite falls to about 59 miles above the Earth and enters the atmosphere. It will then begin to burn up, with flares visible from the ground, said Ted Molczan, a Canadian satellite tracker. From that point on, he said, it will take about 30 minutes to fall.
This was from the latest article at Drudge. If its at 173 miles and falling at 1640 feet per day and it will enter the atmosphere at 59 miles unless I did the math wrong it wont reach that point for about a year? It moving down at about a mile every 3 days and needs to go 114 miles to reach the atmosphere? Does anyone have any info to share on this?
Patrick McGoohan in ICE STATION ZEBRA!!!
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