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Two satellites collide in orbit
Spaceflight Now ^
| February 11, 2009
| WILLIAM HARWOOD
Posted on 02/11/2009 1:39:00 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Pearls Before Swine
what about those cool equatorial rings lucas liked to put around space explosions?
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:49:15 PM PST
by
absolootezer0
(thank God for Chicago: makes Detroit look wholesome by comparison.)
To: Names Ash Housewares
at least 300 pieces,, dang, that hurts.
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:49:44 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: Names Ash Housewares
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:50:55 PM PST
by
AvOrdVet
("Put the wagons in a circle for all the good it'll do")
To: theDentist
I think it was an accident. it was only a Civilian satellite for satellite telephones and pagers. not a high priority satellite or a military satellite.
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:52:03 PM PST
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
To: AvOrdVet
Hmm... how do I get the pic to upload?
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:52:10 PM PST
by
AvOrdVet
("Put the wagons in a circle for all the good it'll do")
To: ThomasThomas
Wouldn’t a 20,000+ km per hour collision produce enough gaseous debris to constitute a micro-atmosphere, to transmit sound waves?
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:53:01 PM PST
by
MyTwoCopperCoins
(I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
To: Joiseydude
To: Names Ash Housewares
Didn’t DOD buy out the company that put the Iridium up and start using it for military use?
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:54:24 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(Somewhere In Kenya, A Village Is Missing It's Idiot)
To: AvOrdVet
I would like to see that picture in motion, it would look like a huge scrambled mess.
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:54:41 PM PST
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
To: AvOrdVet
This makes you wonder why it does not happen more often... Because if each of those dots really were satellites to a 1:1 scale, then each satellite, considering that they are in orbit, would have to be larger than a couple of cities.
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:55:06 PM PST
by
MyTwoCopperCoins
(I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
To: Names Ash Housewares
More stuff to avoid when flying around up there. And let’s hope the Iranian one up there accidentally collides with something.
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:55:43 PM PST
by
b4its2late
(Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
To: Names Ash Housewares
Did either of the satellites’ operators have insurance?
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:56:24 PM PST
by
seatrout
(I wouldn't know most "American Idol" winners if I tripped over them!)
To: Steve Van Doorn
Chinese are getting very sophisticated in a short amount of time. Seems the 1990s became a technological enlightenment for the red and yellow government. Hmmmmmm, wonder how that happened.
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:56:26 PM PST
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
To: library user
This got moved to the chatroom in a hurry.It was originally posted into Chat. We've moved it to Frontpage, it is an interesting story.
To: Doctor Raoul
Seems like I recall that as well.
To: Steve Van Doorn
The system is being used extensively by the U.S. Department of Defense through the DoD gateway in Hawaii.[7] The DoD pays $36 million a year for unlimited access for up to 20,000 users[8] The commercial gateway in Tempe, Arizona, provides voice, data, and paging services for commercial customers on a global basis. Typical customers include maritime, aviation, government, the petroleum industry, scientists, and frequent world travelers. Iridium satellites are now an essential component of communications with remote science camps, especially the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. As of December 2006, an array of twelve Iridium modems was put online, providing 24/7 data services to the station for the first time. Total bandwidth is 28.8 kbit/s.[9]
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:57:46 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(Somewhere In Kenya, A Village Is Missing It's Idiot)
To: MyTwoCopperCoins
Its various debris... I went to Cheyenne Mountain (NORAD) one time and they are tracking every thing in orbit, from early Apollo tools to paint chips...
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:58:49 PM PST
by
AvOrdVet
("Put the wagons in a circle for all the good it'll do")
To: Names Ash Housewares
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posted on
02/11/2009 1:59:14 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(WHAT YOU SAY!!)
To: Names Ash Housewares
I’d think there would have been frequent near misses leading up to this, given the speed and the described force of impact. That is, unless somebody’s orbit changed.
How long has this Irridium satellite been operational, and how long has the “presumably defunct” Russian Cosmos satellite been operational? What was the purpose of this “presumably defunct” Russian satellite?
That it occurred over Russian territory adds to my level of curiosity.
Maybe I’ve read too much Clancy, but I’ll suspect that it’s a planned, live kill by Russia until proven otherwise.
To: Joiseydude
>>Accidently or intentionally?<<
Precisely!
Most people have no idea how much “space” there really is up there. The likelyhood of this accidentally happening is astronomically small.
No pun intended.
I don’t think Vince Foster committed suicide either...
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posted on
02/11/2009 2:00:13 PM PST
by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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