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
arrow-up146arrow-down1external-linkOcean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Stationspacenews.comllamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square20linkfedilink
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-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months ago“There is nothing out there… all there is … is empty space …and vacuum …and sunlight.”
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.
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?
“There is nothing out there… all there is … is empty space …and vacuum …and sunlight.”
That’s not how it works, it would take an insane amount of fuel to get it out of Earth’s gravity well.