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Originally posted by Graham
Het Guys,
I don't know how many of you guys have seen the underground DVD Secret NASA Transmissions the smoking gun made by a vancouver cable manager made for some really interesting viewing mostly about 2 types of phenomena
Originally posted by ROBL240
My theory is that we all know Gravity attracts objects, so the bigger the ISS gets the more gravitational force is expels, what we could be seeing is Space Debris, Meteoric Debris being attracted to the ISS through Gravity, NASA doesnt want to publish the risks of having tonnes of orbital Debris coming towards the ISS so they merely shrug it off.
American spacecraft had to dodge space debris four times in 2008, NASA revealed Tuesday, a fact that highlights both the extent of the space junk problem and the primary mitigation option open to NASA.
By tracking pieces of debris larger than around four inches, space engineers can identify some dangerous space junk and meteoroids. If a satellite or spacecraft is in danger of getting hit, they simply move it out of harm’s way. The International Space Station, for example, had to make an evasive maneuver back in August 2008, to avoid a piece of an old Russian craft.
“On average, Shuttle and ISS have conducted several collision avoidance maneuvers over the past ten years on the order of about one per year,” said Nicholas Johnson, chief scientist at NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office, in a teleconference with reporters ahead of a House subcommittee on space and aeronautics meeting about space debris.
Space debris is an increasing problem. Johnson noted that from the 1960s until the past year, orbital debris had increased linearly, despite advances in decreasing the amount of debris left behind per trip to space. But recently, a Chinese missile test on a satellite and the collision of two satellites in orbit, sent the amount of space debris up considerably. The satellite collision alone increased the risk to the upcoming May shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope by 8 percent.
Originally posted by dckent
I have just watched the dvd and was curious to know more about Martyn Stubbs and found this website. I see that this video does have a large audience and who has reviewed the video here. So I signed up and wish to express my own ideas and opinions.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
“On average, Shuttle and ISS have conducted several collision avoidance maneuvers over the past ten years on the order of about one per year,” said Nicholas Johnson, chief scientist at NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office,