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llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to SpaceflightEnglish · 7 个月前

Ocean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Station

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Ocean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Station

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llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to SpaceflightEnglish · 7 个月前
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GOLDEN, Colorado — NASA is faced with the challenge of safely deorbiting, in one fell swoop, over 400 tons of space hardware in a few years. As of now, the agency plans on deorbiting the Internatio…
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    Yeah we probably should start being more careful about dumping our spacecraft, but not sure the ISS is the one to experiment on.

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      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.

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        Extra fuel needs aside, if you park it higher and it breaks up…

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          You mean when it breaks up…

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          Just push it out of orbit and it’ll float away.

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            “Into another environment?”

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              It’ll be beyond the environment.

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                Into another environment?

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                  “No, no, it’ll be boosted beyond the environment. It’ll not be in the environment.”

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                    But it must be somewhere… Well what’s out there?

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            That’s not how it works, it would take an insane amount of fuel to get it out of Earth’s gravity well.

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          It will have more energy when hitting the atmosphere and disintegrate more completely.

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            This is not correct if it broke up in a circular orbit

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