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Mike Mercury 10-15-2020 7:52am

defunct Russian satellite and Chinese rocket body will collide tonight
 
A collision could cause more debris to orbit the earth

https://www.foxnews.com/science/very...ollide-reports

Experts believe a defunct Russian satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket could smash into each other high above the earth on Thursday, according to reports.

Satellite-tracking company LeoLabs on Wednesday said the defunct objects could come within 39 feet of each other and that there was a 10% chance that they could still collide around 8:56 p.m. ET. The company deemed the potential crash to be a "very high risk."

"This event continues to be very high risk and will likely stay this way through the time of closest approach," LeoLabs tweeted.

Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the two objects were a defunct Soviet navigation satellite called Parus [Kosmos 2004] that launched in 1989 and a Chinese rocket stage.

As of Tuesday, the objects -- with a mass of roughly three metric tons -- were in low-Earth orbit at an altitude of around 615 miles, LeoLabs said.

Because the objects are located high above the ground, they don't pose a risk to anyone on earth. However, a crash could cause more debris to orbit the earth, which could increase the risk of future collisions.

The debris could also threaten astronauts.
"If this turns into a collision, it's probably thousands to tens of thousands of new pieces of debris that is going to cause a headache for any satellite that's going out into upper low-Earth orbit, or even beyond," said Dan Ceperley, the CEO of LeoLabs, according to Business Insider. "It's maybe a much bigger problem than a lot of people realize."

As of February this year, there are 128 million debris objects in orbit, according to the European Space Agency. Roughly 34,000 of those objects are greater than 10 cm.



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snide 10-15-2020 9:11am

Great. Now the Chinese are ****ing up space. :rolleyes:

The_Dude 10-15-2020 10:22am

Would be fun to watch.

dvarapala 10-15-2020 10:25am

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Originally Posted by snide (Post 1813667)
Great. Now the Chinese are ****ing up space. :rolleyes:

Space is already ****ed up. :yesnod:


NEED-A-VETTE 10-15-2020 8:50pm

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Space is already ****ed up. :yesnod:


This is why we can’t have nice things.

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ratflinger 10-15-2020 9:56pm

Everyone should be required to deorbit satellites when they are decommissioned. That or we need Spaceballs 1 to come and clean up the mess

78SA 10-16-2020 9:38am

:waiting:

The_Dude 10-16-2020 10:05am

apparently they missed each other.
https://www.space.com/dead-chinese-r...r-miss-leolabs

snide 10-16-2020 11:30am

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Originally Posted by The_Dude (Post 1813916)

Well, that's a shame. :(

markids77 10-16-2020 7:16pm

Hows about every trip to the IST we do a short detour, tie a bottle rocket to some defunct piece of history and blow it out of geosynchronous orbit? Hell, you're going up anyway, how much more could it cost?

Raazor 10-16-2020 11:51pm

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Originally Posted by Mike Mercury (Post 1813642)
A collision could cause more debris to orbit the earth

https://www.foxnews.com/science/very...ollide-reports

Experts believe a defunct Russian satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket could smash into each other high above the earth on Thursday, according to reports.

Satellite-tracking company LeoLabs on Wednesday said the defunct objects could come within 39 feet of each other and that there was a 10% chance that they could still collide around 8:56 p.m. ET. The company deemed the potential crash to be a "very high risk."

"This event continues to be very high risk and will likely stay this way through the time of closest approach," LeoLabs tweeted.

Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the two objects were a defunct Soviet navigation satellite called Parus [Kosmos 2004] that launched in 1989 and a Chinese rocket stage.

As of Tuesday, the objects -- with a mass of roughly three metric tons -- were in low-Earth orbit at an altitude of around 615 miles, LeoLabs said.

Because the objects are located high above the ground, they don't pose a risk to anyone on earth. However, a crash could cause more debris to orbit the earth, which could increase the risk of future collisions.

The debris could also threaten astronauts.
"If this turns into a collision, it's probably thousands to tens of thousands of new pieces of debris that is going to cause a headache for any satellite that's going out into upper low-Earth orbit, or even beyond," said Dan Ceperley, the CEO of LeoLabs, according to Business Insider. "It's maybe a much bigger problem than a lot of people realize."

As of February this year, there are 128 million debris objects in orbit, according to the European Space Agency. Roughly 34,000 of those objects are greater than 10 cm.



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Cliffs?

Rikki Z-06 10-17-2020 8:13am

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Originally Posted by Raazor (Post 1814110)
Cliffs?

Some chit is gonna collide in space. :cert:

Raazor 10-17-2020 10:22am

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Originally Posted by Rikki Z-06 (Post 1814141)
Some chit is gonna collide in space. :cert:

and?

The_Dude 10-17-2020 10:29am

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Originally Posted by Raazor (Post 1814161)
and?

it didn't

Raazor 10-17-2020 10:36am

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Originally Posted by The_Dude (Post 1814163)
it didn't

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Mike Mercury 10-17-2020 10:44am

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Rikki Z-06 10-17-2020 10:55am

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Originally Posted by Raazor (Post 1814161)
and?

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Originally Posted by The_Dude (Post 1814163)
it didn't

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Originally Posted by Raazor (Post 1814168)

:funnier::funnier::funnier:


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