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GPS, satellite failures, and space junk
Now that we have lost LORAN and are scheduled to lose most other
ground based navigation aids, I wonder what the thoughts are now that the unthinkable happened this past week. Two large communications? satellites collided at very high speed creating a debris cloud about 200 X 300 miles and spreading. This increases the chances of other Low Earth Orbit (LEO) collisions by at least an order of magnitude. Technically there should be two debris clouds diverging and spreading out like a shotgun blast even if the collision had been at a shallow angle, which it wasn't. As one astronaut said, the greatest danger in the flight going back to the moon or mars is getting through the cloud of junk surrounding the earth (paraphrased). I wonder what this has done to the risk for our GPS constellation? Roger (K8RI) |
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