Jim Oberg wrote:
To put the fuss over the hazards of the golk ball
stunt in proportion, what are the largest cases of
jettison of materials from space stations -- Skylab,
Salyuts, mir, ISS, any of them -- to compare it to?
There was one Progress that separated without
adequate deorbit propellant, and what happened to the
Kvant-1 service module?
More specifically, I'm interested in EVA manual
jettsions -- trashbags, spacesuits, unneeded external
structureal elements and packing material, etc. How
big have they gotten to be?
In addition to suitsat on February 3, 2006, Exp 12 jettisoned the FPP
(Floating Potential Probe) on November 7, 2005
See http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=18597
Exp 10 Launched the TNS-0 Nanosatellite
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=15966?
Exp 9 launched the ~70kg "RRZh"
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13865
I'm sure there's many more.