UM-Bot Posted March 16, 2018 #1 Share Posted March 16, 2018 Airbus has been developing a new type of harpoon in an effort to reduce the build-up of space junk in orbit. https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/316476/harpoon-could-drag-satellites-out-of-the-sky 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Greenman Posted March 16, 2018 #2 Share Posted March 16, 2018 That would be a fun job to have. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoofGardener Posted March 16, 2018 #3 Share Posted March 16, 2018 (edited) WHITE WHALE....WHIIITEEE WHAAAALE... WHITE... oh.. wait.. no.. it's just a Mistubishi X1 communications relay satellite. Ah well. It should be noted that all Airbus have created is a pointy stick. They still need a "chase spaceship" (and a tether) before their Pointy Stick would actually DO anything. Edited March 16, 2018 by RoofGardener 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Greenman Posted March 16, 2018 #4 Share Posted March 16, 2018 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonman Posted March 16, 2018 #5 Share Posted March 16, 2018 I thought they meant from the ground, that would be something. This, not so impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankenhunter Posted March 22, 2018 #6 Share Posted March 22, 2018 So are they going to with the junk? Send it to earth? Collect everything into a giant orbiting scrap yard? Chuck it out into the void? Will they hire some guy named Ahab? These questions need answers. Hank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc14 Posted March 22, 2018 #7 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Interesting how they soft soap what teh Chinese did a few years ago by making it sound like they were trying to deorbit a satellite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted March 22, 2018 #8 Share Posted March 22, 2018 30 minutes ago, Merc14 said: Interesting how they soft soap what teh Chinese did a few years ago by making it sound like they were trying to deorbit a satellite. Funny, that's pretty much the excuse the USA used when they fired an anti-satellite missile at the failed USA-196 spy satellite in 2008. In 1985, when the USAF destroyed the Solwind satellite in orbit they didn't even bother inventing spurious excuses and just plain admitted it was a test of an anti-satellite weapon. China has done nothing that the USA and Soviet Union/Russia hadn't done already. That doesn't make it right but it does make the USA's complaints at the time a little hypocritical. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc14 Posted March 22, 2018 #9 Share Posted March 22, 2018 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Waspie_Dwarf said: Funny, that's pretty much the excuse the USA used when they fired an anti-satellite missile at the failed USA-196 spy satellite in 2008. In 1985, when the USAF destroyed the Solwind satellite in orbit they didn't even bother inventing spurious excuses and just plain admitted it was a test of an anti-satellite weapon. China has done nothing that the USA and Soviet Union/Russia hadn't done already. That doesn't make it right but it does make the USA's complaints at the time a little hypocritical. Neither the USA nor Rusia was mentioned in the video and I very much doubt they would ever soft soap if they were. Edited March 22, 2018 by Merc14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Greenman Posted March 23, 2018 #10 Share Posted March 23, 2018 As we deorbit all this junk, (which needs to be done) how are all burned particulates going to affect the upper atmosphere? Is there enough of it to have an effect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khol Posted March 24, 2018 #11 Share Posted March 24, 2018 What I dont get is how we can be so irresponsible in the first place ?? Isnt it a no brainer orbiting debris would create huge safety issues to our space programs and communication satellites ? Creating space junk of this magnitude is completely insane to begin with. Humans have complete disregard for any kind of enviorment..terrestrial or otherwise. Is it impossible not to create junk or could we have developed better methods ? just nuts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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