What? India is filled with trash, Indian astronauts would feel right at home.

That is a poorly written (or translated) article.

Anyone else read that as Mr Space Station?

Random Reality Check: Anyone else read that as Mr Space Station?

I did ....

F=MA can be a b*(&^

Space and satellite professionals worldwide had their second-worst nightmare turn true when an US Iridium Satellite LLC smashed into a dead Russian military satellite Kosmos-2251 on 10 February,

news to me

Indians in space? How, kemosabe. Boo boo boo boo boo boo boooo!

Pud: Random Reality Check: Anyone else read that as Mr Space Station?

I did ....

this

Speaking of indians and trash and space can we launch indiana into orbit?

macdaddy357: Indians in space? How, kemosabe. Boo boo boo boo boo boo boooo!


Troll? ....not a good one if it was....

Lots of info on this and other space programs at Link (new window)Encyclopedia Astronautica

Gray Matter Collider: F=MA can be a b*(&^



Yep

Gray Matter Collider: F=MA can be a b*(&^

Looks like a USB dongle goblin you got there.

Random Reality Check: Anyone else read that as Mr Space Station?

They can track the space junk with Mr. Radar.

well someone needs to clean the toilet in the space station

Obviously this is a problem, but at least the low earth orbit stuff is a self-correcting one. That stuff will all burn up in the atmosphere over the next 50 years or so. If we can avoid adding to it, the problem will solve itself. Would that really near earth garbage could be taken care of so easily!

On the plus side by being physically over the United States answering our phone calls wouldn't techniclly be outsourcing.

That's no Mr. Space Station...

berylman: Space and satellite professionals worldwide had their second-worst nightmare turn true when an US Iridium Satellite LLC smashed into a dead Russian military satellite Kosmos-2251 on 10 February,

news to me

Wait, there's someone 1) breathing and 2)obviously has access to the internet that HAS NOT heard of this?

Yeeow. Maybe internet porn should come with intermittent news flashes?

Adopt-A-Skyway?

At speeds of 39,000 kmph, debris the size of a rice grain can cause quarter-inch wide dents in space shuttle windows, as NASA astronauts are discovering.

Chinese space junk.

when they said "space junk" i thought they meant...
nevermind
my bad

/fap

Palindrome! Send Quark to Earth!

You would think rocket science would at least be subject to the same rules earthbound drivers must follow: no littering, maintaining a safe distance from other vehicles, proof of financial responsibility.

One idea is for the space shuttle to bring up a satellite, that when deployed extends long tubes in every direction. The end of each tube also extends a "tent", so when extended it looks like a big ball. Then the tent is filled with polymer foam that hardens. The tubes also act as guidance maneuver thrusters.

The end result is a big ball of hard foam designed to collide with space garbage that will stick in the foam. It flies an irregular orbit designed to be impacted by as much garbage as possible. Finally, it returns to the atmosphere to burn up along with all the detritus it has collected. As needed a tube end might also be used to refuel it, if its mission is to be extended.

The Faulty Bagnose: Quark

Awesome

Toybox 2 anyone?

Solution: send up several large magnets with each launch, to be dispersed at various orbital altitudes. The magnets will slowly collect junk over the years, their orbits decaying as they accumulate mass, eventually falling to Earth and burning up in the atmosphere. A couple dozen magnets released during each mission should help clear up the skies in a few decades.

Well, after we decommision the space shuttle, they will end up having to dump tons of trash from the International Space Station - as far as I understand, Soyuz does not provide a way to bring back the tons of trash that the shuttle does now on every trip.

What a hell of a way to bail on our scientific progess, AND on our international partners.

:(

wmoonfox: Solution: send up several large magnets with each launch, to be dispersed at various orbital altitudes. The magnets will slowly collect junk over the years, their orbits decaying as they accumulate mass, eventually falling to Earth and burning up in the atmosphere. A couple dozen magnets released during each mission should help clear up the skies in a few decades.

Except that it will pickup the momentum of all the objects it collects too...

Your cunning plan,
Thought All the Way,
Through is not.

Yeah... Having worked with several outsourcing/consulting firms in India this doesn't surprise me. "We could do it... but something *you* did is keeping us from doing it."

/meanwhile... everyone else is going about their business like nothing happened.

Send up some Untouchables first, let them clean things up.

FTA: Another fine mess you have got us into", an extra terrestrial Oliver Hardy can scowl at the Stan Laurel of space professionals currently blinking in bewilderment at how to clear space debris.

LOL WUT.

Perhaps India could spend the billions on... oh, I don't know...
feeding the half a billion starving people walking around the place?

Nah. Bad idea. The rest of the world would look down on them.

Scrolling status text? Seriously? Maybe they should throw in an autoplaying MIDI, too. 1997 just called; it wants its dumb gimmick back.

Oh, these solutions are so brilliant. What if an some country who doesn't like the United States controlling the ultimate higher ground launches a missile (or 1000) packed full of nuts and bolts and high explosives into orbit to blow up? Say goodbye to satellites of all kinds.

forever.

It pays to be nice.

They will surely be able to pack 'em in

excuses, excuses..

FlukeBoy 2009-03-14 09:39:11 PM
Oh, these solutions are so brilliant. What if an some country who doesn't like the United States controlling the ultimate higher ground launches a missile (or 1000) packed full of nuts and bolts and high explosives into orbit to blow up? Say goodbye to satellites of all kinds.

forever.

It pays to be nice.

It's not just the USA that has essential satellites up there, nice try to demonize us again. Maybe they don't like France or the UK or Germany or Australia or Spain or Italy or Russia or any other friggin country that has paid to have one or many more satellites launched by the US or the Ariane systems (free world launch systems).

It's scary now, what junk is up there. When I invent my anti-gravity device, I'll be sure to only leave the planet from one of the poles. It'll be like trying to cross a freeway on foot.

wmoonfox: Solution: send up several large magnets with each launch, to be dispersed at various orbital altitudes. The magnets will slowly collect junk over the years, their orbits decaying as they accumulate mass, eventually falling to Earth and burning up in the atmosphere. A couple dozen magnets released during each mission should help clear up the skies in a few decades.

Unlikely, since almost all metals launched will be non-ferrous for weight reasons.

Thallone1 Quote 2009-03-14 10:01:06 PM

Unlikely, since almost all metals launched will be non-ferrous for weight reasons.


This!

Their worst nightmare is of course space debris smashing an inhabited spacecraft, like the International Space Station or a NASA space shuttle killing astronauts and having orbiting flesh, organs and bones adding to the estimated 5,500 tonnes of space hardware currently hurtling up to 1,500 km above our planet. At speeds of 39,000 kmph, debris the size of a rice grain can cause quarter-inch wide dents in space shuttle windows, as NASA astronauts are discovering.


That's just weird.

sending up things to intercept all the thousands of pieces of space junk is too expensive. so what you need is a frickin big laser in orbit, to point at stuff from a epic distance and ablate material off its surface, which will alter its orbit, right into the atmospere.

Slumdog Astronaut.

Need to get these guys to recycle/reuse space junk

Go to Tatoine, get some Jawas. Lend them a shuttle.

ripple123: sending up things to intercept all the thousands of pieces of space junk is too expensive. so what you need is a frickin big laser in orbit, to point at stuff from a epic distance and ablate material off its surface, which will alter its orbit, right into the atmospere.

While they're up there, maybe they can take care of some of our international problems. Like a few of those pesky continents..

Built/ tested 12 rockets that put up a pile of iridium sats.
All polar sats kinda are close at earths top- so the crashin may not be over....
let's hope the playboy channel doesn't get hit!

Even Noah-N prime we just launched will be zooming at 17500 mph
close to debri.