On Sep 25, 8:03*am, Brad Guth wrote:
On Sep 24, 7:08*am, Pat Flannery wrote:

Poor Canada, first the Soviet satellite with the reactor on it, now this:http://www.indianexpress.com/news/na...-up-plunges-ba...

Pat

Space Junk/Debris (mostly of the lethal kind if encountered at any
closing velocity)

There’s supposedly 1100+ working satellites (plus x-number of secret
ones) and perhaps twice that many dysfunctional or dead, not to
mention those already in bits because of collisions and/or being
intentionally shot at. *Actually the official number of dead
satellites can’t be told, nor the true all-inclusive cost of our
having to track everything of 10+ cm (22,000 items and growing).

The danger of space debris / by Micah Zenko
*http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn....danger-of-spac....
*“Presently, there are some 22,000 items over ten centimeters across,
or roughly the size of a softball, which can be regularly tracked with
existing resources and technology. These include the upper stages of
launch vehicles, disabled spacecraft, dead batteries, solid rocket
motor waste, and refuse from human missions. In addition, there are
approximately 300,000 other fragments of space junk measuring between
one and ten centimeters, and over 135,000,000 less than one
centimeter, which could potentially damage operational spacecraft.”

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*Brad Guth, Brad_Guth, Brad.Guth, BradGuth, BG / “Guth Usenet”

Sooner or later a space trash recovery system will have to be put in
operation. hopefully before LEO becomes unusable.....