Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth within months
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#2Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12079880
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#3Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12079880
Then it was only suspected, now it is headed in. One good solar flare to poof up the atmosphere and down it will come.
I guess the Chinese figured you always burn up your first space station. (Skylab, Mir)
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#4I want a piece of that.
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#5I want a piece of that.
Theoretically possible, highly technical. Also, really expensive and it might make some people mad.
Are there actual space junk claiming rules, like that of sea wrecks? I could see someone just going up and stealing/taking a classified satellite before it de-orbited.
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#6I want a piece of that.
Theoretically possible, highly technical. Also, really expensive and it might make some people mad. Are there actual space junk claiming rules, like that of sea wrecks? I could see someone just going up and stealing/taking a classified satellite before it de-orbited.
There’s a great premise for a sci-fi novel - an earth where machinery falls from the sky on a perpetual basis, due to it being more advantageous to send new objects rather than repair/upgrade the existing ones. Groups of scavengers track these impacts to salvage pieces and build their own machinery.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Theoretically possible, highly technical. Also, really expensive and it might make some people mad. Are there actual space junk claiming rules, like that of sea wrecks? I could see someone just going up and stealing/taking a classified satellite before it de-orbited.
There’s a great premise for a sci-fi novel - an earth where machinery falls from the sky on a perpetual basis, due to it being more advantageous to send new objects rather than repair/upgrade the existing ones. Groups of scavengers track these impacts to salvage pieces and build their own machinery.
There is an anime that is based around this concept where the future Earth is filled with too much space debris, so the protagonist joins in a new type of garbagemen (garbagewomen) to go on spacewalks to retrieve space debris. It's one of my favourite animes, since it doesn't deal with teenage drama like most anime.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Theoretically possible, highly technical. Also, really expensive and it might make some people mad. Are there actual space junk claiming rules, like that of sea wrecks? I could see someone just going up and stealing/taking a classified satellite before it de-orbited.
There’s a great premise for a sci-fi novel - an earth where machinery falls from the sky on a perpetual basis, due to it being more advantageous to send new objects rather than repair/upgrade the existing ones. Groups of scavengers track these impacts to salvage pieces and build their own machinery.
There's this story[1] from Compelling Sci-Fi issue 8 that might quite close on the fallen space junk scavenging part.
[1] http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/the-dirt-dances....
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Theoretically possible, highly technical. Also, really expensive and it might make some people mad. Are there actual space junk claiming rules, like that of sea wrecks? I could see someone just going up and stealing/taking a classified satellite before it de-orbited.
There’s a great premise for a sci-fi novel - an earth where machinery falls from the sky on a perpetual basis, due to it being more advantageous to send new objects rather than repair/upgrade the existing ones. Groups of scavengers track these impacts to salvage pieces and build their own machinery.
I almost added that the idea was free for the taking if someone wanted to write a sci fi story about it. I didn't add it because I felt it might come off too pretentious.
There's a lot of ways it can go, including a tech thriller, espionage, or even recovering something specifically needed in a post apocalyptic world. I'm sure there are more ideas.
It could even be hard science fiction, instead of just fantasy!
Alas, I've too many writing projects on my plate. Run with it, if you want. I'll even read it.
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#10Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12079880
Then it was only suspected, now it is headed in. One good solar flare to poof up the atmosphere and down it will come. I guess the Chinese figured you always burn up your first space station. (Skylab, Mir)
FWIW, Mir was definitely not Russia's first station, and not even the first one to re-enter uncontrolled.