llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year agoOcean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Stationspacenews.comexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down11
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minus-squareWolfLink@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 year agoYeah we probably should start being more careful about dumping our spacecraft, but not sure the ISS is the one to experiment on.
minus-squareTachyonTele@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoIt’s really too bad NASA won’t boost it up and “park” it in space. I reckon Point Nemo is going to be a treasure trove for some future archaeologists.
minus-squareburble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoExtra fuel needs aside, if you park it higher and it breaks up…
minus-squaredindonmasker@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoYou mean when it breaks up…
minus-squarebasmati@lemmus.orgBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoIt will have more energy when hitting the atmosphere and disintegrate more completely.
minus-squareSteve@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoThis is not correct if it broke up in a circular orbit
minus-squareDkarma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·11 months agoJust push it out of orbit and it’ll float away.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·11 months ago“Into another environment?”
minus-squareMiles O'Brien@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 months agoIt’ll be beyond the environment.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months ago“No, no, it’ll be boosted beyond the environment. It’ll not be in the environment.”
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoBut it must be somewhere… Well what’s out there?
minus-squareHeliumfart@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThat’s not how it works, it would take an insane amount of fuel to get it out of Earth’s gravity well.
Yeah we probably should start being more careful about dumping our spacecraft, but not sure the ISS is the one to experiment on.
It’s really too bad NASA won’t boost it up and “park” it in space.
I reckon Point Nemo is going to be a treasure trove for some future archaeologists.
Extra fuel needs aside, if you park it higher and it breaks up…
You mean when it breaks up…
It will have more energy when hitting the atmosphere and disintegrate more completely.
This is not correct if it broke up in a circular orbit
Just push it out of orbit and it’ll float away.
“Into another environment?”
It’ll be beyond the environment.
Into another environment?
“No, no, it’ll be boosted beyond the environment. It’ll not be in the environment.”
But it must be somewhere… Well what’s out there?
That’s not how it works, it would take an insane amount of fuel to get it out of Earth’s gravity well.