Comments on: Chinese Space Litter Threatens International Space Station https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/23/chinese-space-litter-threatens/ Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:45:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/23/chinese-space-litter-threatens/#comment-509714 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:45:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/23/chinese-space-litter-threatens/#comment-509714 Slightly off topic butt a reminder for a somewhat related one – its now T minus one day three hours and counting :

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

until the launch of NASA’s latest and best Mars rover the Curiosity – even whilst Opportunity continues to roam the russet sands of its target planet.

]]> By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/23/chinese-space-litter-threatens/#comment-509713 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:41:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/23/chinese-space-litter-threatens/#comment-509713 Yikes!

Actually there’s all too much space junk posing ever worse hazards up there in the Black. Its a growing problem and has been for some time. I expect we’ll hear (or maybe not hear after the first few) of many more such close encounters of the space garbage kind.

China shooting that satellite apart really was a poorly thought out jerk move on their part. If there was any justice some of that debris would hit *their* new space station!

Still looking on the bright side since the last couple of recent successful Soyuz rocket launches at least they’re not going to “de-crew” the International Space Station* as was originally feared after an unmanned Soyuz failure a monthor two ago.

* Really wish they’d give the ISS a proper name. Sigh.

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