View Full Version : Satellites collided... no thoughts?
4freedoman
February 12th, 2009, 5:10 pm
O.K. I might be throwing this out of perspective but I think there is more to it. Has anyone else done any research on this. Only 5 days after Iran launches its first satellite named Safir2 which means ambassador 2 in English, this happens. I know that it was a Russian unused satellite and it was a US satellite named Iridium 33. I just think something is fishy about this and really it has nothing to do with dems or reps but I know there are alot of educated people on here and thought I would get your thoughts on this.
There have only been a few indirect collisons, BUT this is the first direct collison out of 6,600 sattelites launched since Sputnik. Plus Iridium LCC. is some sort of special sattelite phone service.
I;m just trying to add it all up and there has not been much media coverage on this so far... they may be trying to figure this out too.
Libstomper
February 12th, 2009, 5:11 pm
They killed independent George?
ISYairio
February 12th, 2009, 5:12 pm
My bad. Sorry. :whistle:
;) :razz:
Buffalo
February 12th, 2009, 5:12 pm
I'm no astrophysicist, but most communication satellites are in geosynchronous orbit, I think. Not sure where the Russian satellite was. Honestly see nothing nefarious about it, but it is odd.
BobH.
February 12th, 2009, 5:16 pm
Top Story:
NASA Satellite Driver busted for DUI...............
TIC
fava
February 12th, 2009, 5:22 pm
We need a trillion dollar satellite bailout plan passed immediately. There is no time to wait or read the bill.
zantax
February 12th, 2009, 5:25 pm
I don't think it's out of line, it's not like we never heard of killer satellites. Russia or China testing Obama's mettle?
NightTrain
February 12th, 2009, 5:26 pm
Bush's fault - he should have seen this coming...
BobH.
February 12th, 2009, 5:29 pm
Bush's fault - he should have seen this coming...
Yeah, he was too busy cutting government spending to notice the two Satellites were on a collision course.
IMHO
NightTrain
February 12th, 2009, 5:53 pm
Yeah, he was too busy cutting government spending to notice the two Satellites were on a collision course.
IMHO
I know - evil Boooooooooosh....
Samm
February 12th, 2009, 6:05 pm
O.K. I might be throwing this out of perspective but I think there is more to it. Has anyone else done any research on this. Only 5 days after Iran launches its first satellite named Safir2 which means ambassador 2 in English, this happens. I know that it was a Russian unused satellite and it was a US satellite named Iridium 33. I just think something is fishy about this and really it has nothing to do with dems or reps but I know there are alot of educated people on here and thought I would get your thoughts on this.
There have only been a few indirect collisons, BUT this is the first direct collison out of 6,600 sattelites launched since Sputnik. Plus Iridium LCC. is some sort of special sattelite phone service.
I;m just trying to add it all up and there has not been much media coverage on this so far... they may be trying to figure this out too.
"no thoughts?"
I have a thought... **** Happens.
Hoobeedoo Bejesus
February 12th, 2009, 6:35 pm
Iridium huh?
I thought those were all downed 10 years ago. What a monumental **** up that was! LOL
4freedoman
February 12th, 2009, 6:54 pm
Alright I get it. I threw this one WAYYYYY out of perspective. Thanks alot guys. Lets go back to Obamaland! Geeeshhh!
JeffR
February 12th, 2009, 6:59 pm
I heard last night where someone said that this was no accident. He was saying the odds of this happening was something like 1 in a trillion.
I also remember watching something over the weekend (on Discovery I think) that showed he we have a team that constantly monitors everything in orbit that is larger than 2 inches. Their main concern is collisions, due to the problems that could happen if the space shuttle, space station, etc. happened to cross the path of debris from a collision.
They would have known ahead of time if this was going to happen.
Samm
February 12th, 2009, 7:08 pm
I heard last night where someone said that this was no accident. He was saying the odds of this happening was something like 1 in a trillion.
I also remember watching something over the weekend (on Discovery I think) that showed he we have a team that constantly monitors everything in orbit that is larger than 2 inches. Their main concern is collisions, due to the problems that could happen if the space shuttle, space station, etc. happened to cross the path of debris from a collision.
They would have known ahead of time if this was going to happen.
That is ridiculous... with polar orbiting satellites (whose orbits all cross each other's at both poles,) one of which is out of control and the other probably (because of its age) operating with limited maneuvering ability left, a collision like this was inevitable in due time. What is surprising is that it has taken this long to happen.
JeffR
February 12th, 2009, 7:55 pm
I tired to find a source on the net regarding those "odds," but couldn't find it.
rob_b52
February 12th, 2009, 8:02 pm
all that space junk does is block the "welcome to earth" sign.
how will ET know to stop by, eat at joes and tip your waitresses.??
thank you, I will be here all week
JeffR
February 15th, 2009, 12:16 pm
That is ridiculous... with polar orbiting satellites (whose orbits all cross each other's at both poles,) one of which is out of control and the other probably (because of its age) operating with limited maneuvering ability left, a collision like this was inevitable in due time. What is surprising is that it has taken this long to happen.
I heard another scientist on the radio estimate that that the odds were about 1 in 1 billion.
Obviously there's no way to calculate the exact odds. If you start reading articles about the collision, you'll see that most mention that the odds of this happening are "quite small."
JeffR
March 5th, 2009, 2:17 pm
Last night I heard that there is reason to believe that the Russian satellite was intentionally destroyed by the American one. It may have been a test for an anti-missile defense system.
MrShotShot
March 5th, 2009, 3:07 pm
Quite small = still can happen.
Thousands of objects traveling at high speed over the past 50 or so years - eventually two of them are going to meet.
Samm
March 5th, 2009, 6:17 pm
Last night I heard that there is reason to believe that the Russian satellite was intentionally destroyed by the American one. It may have been a test for an anti-missile defense system.
Who were you listening to? Art Bell? :eh:
That is more ridiculous than the last thing that I said was ridiculous. I suppose they shot down the Iridium satellite at the same time to cover it up... :rolleyes: