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As Two Ships Passing in the Night
As two ships passing in the night,
So quietly neath the stars soft light;
Our paths cross but now and then.
Reaching out, seeking one another again.
We say hello and then we part,
Knowing we’ve shared a piece of our heart.
Some friendships stay and sadly some go.
My prayers remain steady hoping ours will grow.
I ache when you’re hurting,
I cry when you’re sad.
Wanting to comfort and hold you so bad.
Know that I’m waiting here, with open arms,
To share all your troubles and relish your charms.
I have nothing to offer but the soul of a friend,
Strong shoulders to lean on that don’t easily bend.
I offer these freely with no strings attached,
For in caring and sharing you’ll not meet my match.
So on some long and lonely night
When nothing seems to go just right
Close your eyes and think of me,
Under the moon’s glow is where I’ll be.
after a dead Russian military communications satellite and a commercial U.S. satellite owned by Iridium collided on Feb. 10.
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More to that one that meets the eye
An excellent opportunity for some entrepreneur to start the first space junk recovery/recycle collection route. There must be billions of dollars floating around up there, just waiting to become money in someones pocket.
There must be a market for selling the technology that could be recovered from a competitor’s space vehicles, if for nothing more than to show technology progression. Why is the shuttle returning empty ?
It will become a reality someday. Why not now, there is no competition
I find this surprising. Specifically surprising. After the collision, I downloaded the last unclassified OES for both satellites prior to the collision and propagated them using SGP4, the model they are designed to work with. The model showed that they would pass within 70 meters of one another. Iridium is maneuverable, and supposedly maneuvers whenever there is a prediction that they will pass within 5 km (5000 meters) of another satellite. It is possible that they only check once a week or so and the OES came out within about 24 hours of event. The problem of collision avoidance is N-squared, the complexity goes as the square of the number of satellites, since I only had to check two satellites my problem was N-squared simpler. Still Iridium LLC only needs to worry about their 66 (maybe 65 now) satellites times a few thousand others.
Yes, someone paid me to do it.
I wonder if this space junk inhibits UFO’s too. They probably call Earth “Junker One”.
If two satellites orbiting earth up in the vacuum of space crash together, does it make any noise?