Possible satellite collision on Thursday night

And here we go..



Hey Astro, in the movie, a missile hitting a satellite caused this chain reaction, is it possible in real life?

Interesting.
5 stars, Mutt.
Not falling straight down after a collision at an altitude of 550+ miles...
Something about conservation of momentum... /sarc.
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The last thing we need is another cloud of debris on a slow path to decay and reentry jeopardizing other flights.
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Have fun.


Reality.

I remember when it was launched lol getting old

Good Evening Mr. Astromut. This is probably not the first time things have collided up there. Does Earth have space junk rings around it like Saturn does, yet?

Right on time... an excuse for communications to go down!

Oh, good call.

Hey Astro a year or so ago I was at work and it was about 4:00 in the morning and I was outside. I happened to look straight above me just as the prettiest green ball of fire flew over my head and across the sky. It doesn't even seem real it happened so fast. What was the green fireball if you don't mind me asking? I'm assuming you do, I'm sorry if I'm being presumptuous.

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Kiwi space radar.
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There's been a lot of recent earthquake activity in that immediate part of Antarctica.

Related? Probably not.

I try not to follow Twitter links, so I'm hoping it's a picture of a Biden.

EFT-1 flew through a much more intense portion of the belts for longer than Apollo did. I've explained this for years now.



Now can we stop derailing this thread by asking me questions I've debunked a thousand times to do with Apollo and having nothing at all to do with this thread?

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They had skills in engineering, physics, and capitalization and punctuation.
Ha Ha Ha. Yup, they did.
You never will.

Not really. Mcdonald never answered my question either.

Yeah a couple thousand kilograms of debris doesn't sound so great.

China to start trash dumps in space per cnnpms
Jk

There's no way yet to place a nuclear reactor in space because they need water, all nuclear power plants are located near sea shore ,lakes or rivers. Nuclear reactors are actually working like any other power plant,using coal, gas, oil,,, but is using the thermal energy emitted by nuclear reaction to heat water turn it into steams expands in a turbine which powers the generator.
We split to atom but still use it to boil water; this is why nuclear power was only installed on ships ,aircraft carriers, subs, Russian icebreakers.
But you are right , radioisotope thermoelectric generator using radioactive plutonium were installed on early satellites and still used on space probes that move to far away from Sun to use solar panels. Like Voyager,Cassini and even Appolo mission, one of this crashed in pacific with Apollo 13. But these power cells are not using large amount of radioactive material, i remember reading that this kind of long lasting batteries with plutonium were used in heart peacemakers and implanted in many patients back in 70s, until they figure out that after the patient dies would turn into a dirty bomb during cremation.

Not exactly correct. In fact, the Soviet Union accidentally dropped one on Canada.
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Just an article in the New Yorker about this. You got to read everything to get the truth. Talked about the problems and how NASA really doesn't care. ESA is doing more about trying to clean things up.

what height would these projectiles after explosion hang out at for a bit Astro ?

anything else going to get hit due to this ?

Learn something new every day.

So it looks likely that one of the satellites will be 'visible' to the KSR pre close approach and the other post close approach. Interesting

Green shotin starsafe copper space junk.

Thorium reactors do not use water. The reaction heat is turned to electricity.

this could mean DOOM . i recently watched a documentary about how much space debries is in the layer of space where satelites are . and because when a satellite life is ended , it remains there just floating around eventually earths amtosphere will be full of debries ..

anyway long story short if the 2 satellites collide , they will produce a lot of debrie that could hit other satellites and so on eventually all satellites will be down and we will have no more satellite communication

Thank you, I watched the live broadcast. I was 13 years old. I've always been a believer. I don't care what they say.

Without a way to clean this stuff up, if they start colliding with each other, they will take out functioning satellites.

to follow on Thursday

So just north of antarctica(as if it could be anywhere else) so no sparkly show for us in europe then.

Outstanding work again Astro..

Apart from some apparatus falling from a high altitude balloon, don't believe a word of it

you feel gullible falling for the rona hoax, wait until you discover you fell for the spinning ball hoax

indeed, 500 years of satanic illusion

you are under mind control, you were brain washed from birth

As a kid my dad and a few neighborhood friends watched Skylab fly over my house a few days before the crash. It was hard to sleep those next few nights not knowing if it would fall on my house...