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At what point does it get like ‘Gravity’ up there?
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Somebody is gonna have to clean that stuff up you know.
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It kind of just looks like they are throwing cell phones into space.
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I dunno. They’re more about the size of a WWII battlefield radio:
The satellite has a much more powerful transmitter, though, despite having fewer vacuum tubes. (-:
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We don’t know for sure (chaotic factors involved), but probably fairly soon unless we figure out a practical way to clean up the orbits.
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electrodynamic tethers are rather promising as they are generally simple constructs.
though the experimental one attached to JAXA’s HTV-6 mission failed to deploy a few days ago, simple is unfortunately not identical with easy to build ; )
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There doesn’t seem to be any attitudinal control; it looks like they are leaving the spacecraft with all kinds of odd and inconsistent angular momentum and there’s no indication of (or room for) any maneuver capability in the satellites.
I have this odd image in my head of a spacesuited Indian man shoveling them out a hatch, but maybe I’ve been reading too much 1930s science fiction lately.
Contrast the MMS, which only has 4 nodes, but literally flies through space in precise formation.
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