IRAS is in a polar orbit roughly 900km up. GGSE-4 is in a nearly polar orbit, so that's how you get such a high closing speed. One is going north-ish and the other south-ish.
I don't get it. This is what the space shuttle was designed for. Now that the space shuttle has been put on ice who protects us from all the garbage in space. Sorry but there is something wrong with trying to clean up the damage that we have done to this planet when we have so much space garbage. What is the sense of saving the planet earth without saving the space around it. God for bid we go any further than Mars or even beyond our galaxy if we keep leaving garbage every where were we go. The UN should really be on this and include it in their conquest for renewable energy that does not pollute the universe. Maybe we should include space clean up for aliens that want citizenship with the planet earth.
lmao get real this is to take your mind off the real issues ....satellites are fake ...NASA is a scam
Yeah like searching for BIGFOOT or proving the earth is FLAT! What a shame that this satellite article is distracting 99% of the nation with it's captivating subject matter. But what, if satellites and space is fake, how could my cousin/sister have gotten abducted by aliens? OMG my brain just exploded.
So I'm not sure if its regulated or even in a treaty but for modern satellites, its generally expected that they be set on a path that obviously wont overlap with others. More importantly, they also are expected to have a mechanism that will force it to deorbit at the end of its life cycle. When they are small enough, they burn up on reentry... otherwise I guess they crash em into the ocean. I assume the problem this time, is this wasn't really a thing for "smaller" satellites back in the 80s, which is why that old bird is causing this problem.
Well we still have internet...... but then again I think that is thanks to the under sea cables mostly...... I guess without actual news the first thing to go would be online weather satellites. That and satellite TV lol. I think the atricle said they might come within 40 feet? That's insanely close for objects in orbit. In fact, I feel like in normal orbital calculations, that is probably within the margin of error lol (obviously, im no expert)
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