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Iridium Satellite Collides With Russian Craft

AuHtwoh64

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Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) "-- An Iridium World Communications Inc. satellite collided with a Russian satellite in space yesterday, creating a cloud of wreckage, CBS News reported.

Iridium’s satellites orbit at about 485 miles (780 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface, while the International Space Station orbits at 215 miles, according to CBS."

Collisions of Satellites with debris in orbit is one thing, but one-on-one collisions of satellites; I thought was so unlikely as to be almost impossible, and here we have one!

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Unfortunately we are gathering quite a large amount of trash up there, especially in the low earth orbit. Satellite collisions are rare for now, but this collision produced a ton of debris which is now flying around space in orbit around the earth, and as more and more trash piles up crap like this will become more and more likely.

We're gonna need some space trashmen.
 
AuHtwoh64 said:
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) "-- An Iridium World Communications Inc. satellite collided with a Russian satellite in space yesterday, creating a cloud of wreckage, CBS News reported.

Iridium’s satellites orbit at about 485 miles (780 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface, while the International Space Station orbits at 215 miles, according to CBS."

Collisions of Satellites with debris in orbit is one thing, but one-on-one collisions of satellites; I thought was so unlikely as to be almost impossible, and here we have one!

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hahaha

I hope Iridium sent a fax to Moscow that said "Owned".

Are these Satellites insured?
 
Ikari said:
Unfortunately we are gathering quite a large amount of trash up there, especially in the low earth orbit. Satellite collisions are rare for now, but this collision produced a ton of debris which is now flying around space in orbit around the earth, and as more and more trash piles up crap like this will become more and more likely.

We're gonna need some space trashmen.
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About 20 years ago, there was a short-lived sci-fi situation comedy show on TV called Quark, about a space garbageman. It's kind of funny how sometimes comedy can end up being prophetic. LOL.
 
Are the Iridium satellites even used? Iridium went out of business a long time ago. I think both these objects were space junk even before they collided.
 
danarhea said:
About 20 years ago, there was a short-lived sci-fi situation comedy show on TV called Quark, about a space garbageman. It's kind of funny how sometimes comedy can end up being prophetic. LOL.
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May the Farce be With You.
 
I can't remember which one was the magazine for this reference, but I saw a picture taken from outer space, were the satellites appeared as hundreds of luminous tiny stars around the earth. It was a beautiful picture. :coffeepap
 
conquer said:
I can't remember which one was the magazine for this reference, but I saw a picture taken from outer space, were the satellites appeared as hundreds of luminous tiny stars around the earth. It was a beautiful picture. :coffeepap
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See if you can find that again, I'd like to see it.
 
WillRockwell said:
Are the Iridium satellites even used? Iridium went out of business a long time ago. I think both these objects were space junk even before they collided.
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I think we keep that **** around for times like this. :lol: The Chinese are next.
 
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