jimbo2150
join:2004-05-10
Youngstown, OH | Space Junk
We already turned our orbiting levels of Earth into junkyards with tons of usless satalite parts and such... whats one more piece to add to the pile? |
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Samwoo
join:2002-02-15
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA | It's one more piece of junk for NASA to calculate their shuttle launches around... that is what it is. unless of course if falls out of the sky and burns up. |
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Grail Knight
Who Dares Wins
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join:2003-05-31 | reply to jimbo2150
All the space junk could buy every forum member in BBR a new machine or two every year for the rest of our lives and then some.  |
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drjim
Premium,MVM
join:2000-06-13
Torrance, CA
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Re: Space Junk....NOT
The shuttle can only go out to 300 miles or so. That's why the Hubble and the ISS are at that altitude. Geosynchronous Comsats are 23,000 miles out, about 76 times as far. And Geo Comsats don't fall back to Earth. They use the last of their fuel to boost themselves out to a graveyard orbit.
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