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There are laws against littering.
Certainly, but that's a very different legal theory from 'compensation for shock.' Incidentally, littering fines for space debris don't have the greatest track record of enforceability.[1] [1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70708/nasas-unpaid-400-l...
The charts showing the growth of the number of objects in orbit in recent years are wild. I have to expect this will be a lot more common going forward.
How many people will have to be fatally injured before international laws put seriously painful financial fines on companies dropping crap from space? Or will my fantasy come true that all roads, infrastructure, homes and businesses move underground?
Accursed Gamelans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tytrgmVIwlg&t=114s
I'm nearly certain it's irrelevant but it does make me wonder where parts of the rockets used to launch the ballistic missiles that were recently put into hostile action would have landed.
Somewhere in between the launcher and the target. Ballistic missiles fly a near-parabolic sub-orbital trajectory. That also means that everything on the missile reenters and crashes (or reaches the target) within minutes of the launch. This is a matter or energy management. If your payload (the warhead) is going to land somewhere on Earth, why waste energy in flinging it on a high-velocity (possibly orbital) trajecto…
I'm nearly certain it's irrelevant but it does make me wonder where parts of the rockets used to launch the ballistic missiles that were recently put into hostile action would have landed.
Somewhere in between the launcher and the target. Ballistic missiles fly a near-parabolic sub-orbital trajectory. That also means that everything on the missile reenters and crashes (or reaches the target) within minutes of the launch. This is a matter or energy management. If your payload (the warhead) is going to land somewhere on Earth, why waste energy in flinging it on a high-velocity (possibly orbital) trajecto…
In a sense, this is actually done with high velocity rocketry in general. Often most launch profiles involve a steep ascent before smoothing it out into a softer turn.
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I thought it might be an jet-engine cowl, but I don't know enough about planes.
Do you have a theory on where the rest of the airplane went?
But it turns out it might be from an Ariane upper stage after all.