llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agoOcean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Stationspacenews.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down11
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minus-squareWolfLink@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 month 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 month 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 month agoExtra fuel needs aside, if you park it higher and it breaks up…
minus-squaredindonmasker@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoYou mean when it breaks up…
minus-squarebasmati@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoIt will have more energy when hitting the atmosphere and disintegrate more completely.
minus-squareSteve@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThis is not correct if it broke up in a circular orbit
minus-squareDkarma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·1 month agoJust push it out of orbit and it’ll float away.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month ago“Into another environment?”
minus-squareMiles O'Brien@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoIt’ll be beyond the environment.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-21 month ago“No, no, it’ll be boosted beyond the environment. It’ll not be in the environment.”
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoBut it must be somewhere… Well what’s out there?
minus-squareHeliumfart@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month 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.