Tag: space junk
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#MorningMonarchy: November 12, 2019
Light commands, robot plants and drug drones + this day in history w/the exploding whale incident and our song of the day by Night Drive on your Morning Monarchy for November 12, 2019.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: White Collar Robots Are Coming For Your Office Jobs (Video)
Governments trying to make gardening illegal; white collar robots are starting to manage offices; and governments want to regulate space travel.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Victory Gardens, White Collar Robots, Moon Express (Audio)
Governments trying to make gardening illegal; white collar robots are starting to manage offices; and governments want to regulate space travel.
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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. The mission is planned for 2019, with first tests scheduled for this February. Tokyo’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Nitto Seimo Co, a company with…
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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, the European Space Agency (ESA) says. In a statement, the agency said when and where the pieces would land was still unclear. Experts have previously…
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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 a program to utilize amateur astronomers to help watch space for any dangerous junk that maybe be threatening satellites or other spacecraft and even the…
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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 Ocean, ‘ Alexei Zolotukhin, an official with Russia’s Defense Ministry, was quoted by Ria Novosti as saying. Zolotukhin said that the spacecraft crashed about 776…
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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 nation’s television during a drill. M7.2 Turkey earthquake noted as coincidental with Elenin entering Earth’s orbital path. updates: sky lights up red & green as…
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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 Heiner Klinkrad of the European Space Agency assured: ‘Until now in the more than 50-years of space history not a single person has been harmed…
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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 for 14 years, collecting measurements of ozone and other chemicals in atmosphere. NASA believes 26 parts are large enough to survive reentry somewhere over North…
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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!