TexAgs91 said:
8m in the Houston area. There's supposed to be a chain of starlink satellites going south to north with the high point at 53 degrees elevation from the east, magnitude 3.
I haven't seen these things in a while. Has anyone else since SpaceX started making them darker & non reflective?
I don't think there are many iridium satellites still in orbit.Jock 07 said:
Been a while since I've looked but are iridium flares still a thing?
CanyonAg77 said:I don't think there are many iridium satellites still in orbit.Jock 07 said:
Been a while since I've looked but are iridium flares still a thing?
Saw a few several years ago, including over Palo Duro Canyon. Awesome to see.
EDIT: Wiki tells me it was just the 1st Gen satellites that would flare, and there are a lot of them out of service now. Iridium still exists, the new constellation doesn't flare.
Astronauts forced to take refuge as dangerous space debris flies past ISS https://t.co/oggMzP0G17
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No further details so far, but it appears that a ground based missile was used, not a co-orbital-ASAT like the earlier soviet ASAT systems.
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Seriously, what the fuck is Russia doing shooting down its own satellite in low-Earth orbit; creating a cloud of 1,500 trackable pieces of debris, and knowingly threating its own asset—the International Space Station. What a catastrophe.
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If the review is favorable, this means that there's a pretty reasonable chance that Starship and Super Heavy will make their first orbital launch attempt during the first quarter of 2022.
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Realistically, from a static fire, fueling, QD, etc. infrastructure perspective, I am not sure they really had a shot at going prior to Q1 2022 anyway.double aught said:
What a slow process. Classic government.
He noted that NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei sought shelter in the Russian Soyuz w/ his Russian crewmates while Crew-3 members went into Dragon. And he added that a NASA delegation, including Kathy Lueders, Joel Montalbano and Bob Cabana, happen to be in Russia.
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That's the thing, when you blast something already at orbital velocity/in orbit, some portion, whether 10-40 percent or so, gets blasted all over the place and doesn't decay/degrade as much as it would have otherwise.Kenneth_2003 said:
Didn't India pull a similar stunt a few years back? Or was that China?
How long will it take all of that crap to naturally deorbit?
nortex97 said:That's the thing, when you blast something already at orbital velocity/in orbit, some portion, whether 10-40 percent or so, gets blasted all over the place and doesn't decay/degrade as much as it would have otherwise.Kenneth_2003 said:
Didn't India pull a similar stunt a few years back? Or was that China?
How long will it take all of that crap to naturally deorbit?
It takes a long time and is very difficult to track down/predict. Micro-debris, the size of a small nut for instance, can be incredibly deadly in orbit, is the point.
nortex97 said:
I dunno, I don't think it's exceptionally realistic.
Stuff at LEO decays pretty quick (within 10 years). Some of that writing/speculation is theoretical, and kind of dramatic but we don't need the Chinese/Russians doing stupid stuff just to be tough guys for the next 20 years, for sure.
File5 said:nortex97 said:That's the thing, when you blast something already at orbital velocity/in orbit, some portion, whether 10-40 percent or so, gets blasted all over the place and doesn't decay/degrade as much as it would have otherwise.Kenneth_2003 said:
Didn't India pull a similar stunt a few years back? Or was that China?
How long will it take all of that crap to naturally deorbit?
It takes a long time and is very difficult to track down/predict. Micro-debris, the size of a small nut for instance, can be incredibly deadly in orbit, is the point.
Some of the more realistic science fiction is that we will get trapped by space debris on the planet. Are there any realistic ways to clean up this junk that are economical?
Kenneth_2003 said:
Didn't India pull a similar stunt a few years back? Or was that China?
How long will it take all of that crap to naturally deorbit?
I sincerely hope this is not the case. https://t.co/076cpzg6dY
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the real scary part is that if country's like Russia are falling behind in space and want to catch up.. they can just release a biological weapon? sound familiar these days?PJYoung said:I sincerely hope this is not the case. https://t.co/076cpzg6dY
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PJYoung said:I sincerely hope this is not the case. https://t.co/076cpzg6dY
— Christian Davenport (@wapodavenport) November 16, 2021
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