Oopsie, more space junk

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:14 pm

Scratch one U.S. Iridium satellite and one Russian satellite that managed to smash into each other with devastating results, putting even more hazardous space debris in orbit. Someone will need to invent an orbiting space vacuum cleaner to clean up this mess.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090212/ap_ ... _collision

Octopus · Post by **Octopus** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:40 am

I thought that's how they mated.

d3jake · Post by **d3jake** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:11 am

That is how they mate, they come together and little baby satellites are formed. When they are born they can do little more than keep spinning around the Earth, and without the guidance of the parents satellites they will eventually fall from the sky and crash and burn...

Spidey · Post by **Spidey** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:37 am

Look mommy, a shooting star….

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:37 pm

who needs a missile platform when you can run your old clunker into a suspected spy satellite.

reminds be of movies or games where there is this huge covert back story that merely shows up on the news as an Oh by the3 way\" side story.

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:36 pm