llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agoOcean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Stationspacenews.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down11
arrow-up146arrow-down1external-linkOcean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Stationspacenews.comllamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareburble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoExtra fuel needs aside, if you park it higher and it breaks up…
minus-squaredindonmasker@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoYou mean when it breaks up…
minus-squareDkarma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 months agoJust push it out of orbit and it’ll float away.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 months ago“Into another environment?”
minus-squareMiles O'Brien@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoIt’ll be beyond the environment.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-22 months ago“No, no, it’ll be boosted beyond the environment. It’ll not be in the environment.”
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoBut it must be somewhere… Well what’s out there?
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months ago“There is nothing out there… all there is … is empty space …and vacuum …and sunlight.”
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoand 20,000 tons of crude oil
minus-squareHeliumfart@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThat’s not how it works, it would take an insane amount of fuel to get it out of Earth’s gravity well.
minus-squarebasmati@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoIt will have more energy when hitting the atmosphere and disintegrate more completely.
minus-squareSteve@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThis is not correct if it broke up in a circular orbit
Extra fuel needs aside, if you park it higher and it breaks up…
You mean when it breaks up…
Just push it out of orbit and it’ll float away.
“Into another environment?”
It’ll be beyond the environment.
Into another environment?
“No, no, it’ll be boosted beyond the environment. It’ll not be in the environment.”
But it must be somewhere… Well what’s out there?
“There is nothing out there… all there is … is empty space …and vacuum …and sunlight.”
and 20,000 tons of crude oil
That’s not how it works, it would take an insane amount of fuel to get it out of Earth’s gravity well.
It will have more energy when hitting the atmosphere and disintegrate more completely.
This is not correct if it broke up in a circular orbit