Friday, March 13, 2009
5 inch debris threatened $100B Space Station
Debris misses space station
NASA officials said that the piece of space junk came from an upper-stage rocket that helped launch a U.S. military global positioning satellite in 1993. They described it as a "portion of a spent satellite motor."
Well, this called promising Space exploration
The trash is even worse in the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA is still calculating whether it's safe for a shuttle crew to repair Hubble this year. Scientists estimate that there are tens of millions of pieces in orbit, including more than 17,000 bigger than a grapefruit.
NASA officials said that the piece of space junk came from an upper-stage rocket that helped launch a U.S. military global positioning satellite in 1993. They described it as a "portion of a spent satellite motor."
Well, this called promising Space exploration
The trash is even worse in the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA is still calculating whether it's safe for a shuttle crew to repair Hubble this year. Scientists estimate that there are tens of millions of pieces in orbit, including more than 17,000 bigger than a grapefruit.
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