Chilean plane escapes flaming space junk
Hi AMSATs,
Read the following news about space debris nearly hit a passenger plane !!
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=4122%C2%A7ionid=3510206
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4008929a10.html
Maybe its time to find a real solution to get all that debris out of our skies, before it gets a real big threat to us.
73 de William ---
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of William Leijenaar Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:01 To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Chilean plane escapes flaming space junk
Hi AMSATs,
Read the following news about space debris nearly hit a passenger plane !!
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=4122%C2%A7ionid=3510206
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4008929a10.html
Maybe its time to find a real solution to get all that debris out of our skies, before it gets a real big threat to us.
73 de William
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William Leijenaar wrote:
Hi AMSATs,
Read the following news about space debris nearly hit a passenger plane !!
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=4122%C2%A7ionid=3510206
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4008929a10.html
-- snip --
Hoi William,
And, perhaps, both websites have the same wrong story.
The discussion amongst satellite observers (visual, as opposed to radio) claims that the progress rocket was still docked to the ISS when this event occurred. The visual observers group say progress came down at the time predicted by the Russian authorities.
What the pilot saw was space junk, but not the progress rocket.
Groeten
Sil - ZL2CIA
At 05:35 PM 3/29/2007, Sil - ZL2CIA wrote:
What the pilot saw was space junk, but not the progress rocket.
The Progress couldn't have landed in the South Pacific anyway, if that's where it's planed re-entry point was 12 hours later, the Earth would be facing the wrong way.
73 de VK3JED http://vkradio.com
PE1RAH de G3BVU BT At 22:31 3/28/07 -0700, you wrote:
Hi AMSATs,
Read the following news about space debris nearly hit a passenger plane !!
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=4122%C2%A7ionid=3510206
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4008929a10.html
Maybe its time to find a real solution to get all that debris out of our skies, before it gets a real big threat to us.
73 de William --- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
William, An interesting, but questionable report. Another "scare" story exaggerated out of all proportion by the media. For example: -
1. The report is from the pilot of an Airbus A340 airliner and shows a photograph of a 2-engine airliner. But the A340 has 4 engines! What happened to the other two engines?
2. The reported "nearly hit" miss distance is reported to be 8KM. Maybe it was 7KM or was it 9KM?
3. "The pilot reported seeing the "junk" both in front of him and behind him. That's a very clever pilot who has eyes in his tail! Or did he break his flight plan and make a 360 degree circle to look back from where he had been? And report his flight plan change?
de G3BVU.
... space debris nearly hit a passenger plane !!
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=4122%C2%A7ionid=3510206
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4008929a1
0.html
- The reported "nearly hit" miss distance is reported
to be 8KM. Maybe it was 7KM or was it 9KM?
When we recently were alerted to a possible collision with one of our small satellites last week because the predicted intercept was going to be as close as 300 meters, one can understand the concern at 18,500 MPH collision.
But then we calculated the probability of two 1/2 meter size objects passing through the same point within 300 meters and were amazed that the probabilty of actually hitting each other was still less than one in a million..
Bob
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