Tag: space junk
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Space fishing: Japan to test ‘magnetic net’ for space junk
from RT.com: Japan’s space agency is subcontracting a fishing net company to develop a technology to clean up the space junk that poses a direct threat to Earth’s communication networks. […]
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Satellite fragments to crash to Earth
from smh.com.au: Fragments from a science satellite are likely to crash to Earth late Sunday or early Monday after the one-tonne probe breaks up at the end of its mission, […]
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DARPA Wants Amateur Astronomers To Watch Sky For Space Junk
from stratrisks.com: There is really so much junk floating around in space the government needs help keeping track of it all. This week the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced […]
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Space Junk #5: Air Force Approves Lockheed Martin Space Fence
Lockheed Martin approved by US Air Force to implement Space Fence to be operational by 2017, reports Universe Today. The system will track, detect and catalog over 200,000 pieces of space junk.
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phobos grunt crashes into pacific off coast of chile
Dead Russian space probe Phobos Grunt crashed in the South Pacific off the Chilean coast today around 12:45 EST. Discovery News reports, “‘Phobos-Grunt fragments have crashed down in the Pacific […]
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Space Junk 3D Debuts at IMAX Theaters
Is it coincidence an eye-popping IMAX movie, “Space Junk 3D,” debuts this weekend as another large piece of man-made debris falls to Earth?
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Space Junk #4: Phobos Grunt Reentry, Sunday
Russia’s failed Phobos Grunt Mars space probe (German infrared image, right), will soon burn up upon reentry.
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Phobos Grunt Images Reveal Reason Probe Unresponsive
Phobos Grunt spotted in low orbit by Astrophotographer Thierry Legault, reports Christian Science Monitor article with video. The astrophotographer detects no tumbling of spacecraft less than 200 miles up, but also, sees possible reason for mission’s failure.
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rosat re-entry, elenin & m7.2 turkey quake (updated)
Huffington Post reports ROSAT reentered Earth atmosphere on Sunday somewhere over Southeast Asia? The Intel Hub will continue to cover Comet Elenin up to 11-9, when government takes control of […]
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space junk #3: another large satellite reenters by month’s end?
Will space junk warnings become routine? ROSAT is predicted to reenter Earth’s atmosphere before the end of October. The disclaimers flow in Mail Online article to hedge future liability, “Professor […]
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defunct uar sat: friday est. reentry
The 6.5-ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, projected to fall back to Earth on Friday, reports the Telegraph. UARS carried into orbit in 1991 by the Space Shuttle, operated […]
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1 In 3,200 Odds Of Being Hit By UARS Sat Upon Reentry
Space junk crashing to Earth in late September, provides huge 6.5 ton example of issue. In “Look Out Below! Huge Satellite Coming in for Uncontrolled Rentry,” Universe Today provides actuarial odds of being hit by UARS, but the reentry point is much less clear!
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space junk #2: growth industry or hidden agenda?
We may look to regions beyond our atmosphere for the next “New Deal of the Space Age”? It would not be a government project but perhaps the next growth industry? […]