ran into a hockey stick?
sending dozens of chunks of debris tumbling into different orbits around Earth.
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| Science & Technology |
| US military satellite explodes above Earth |
| 2015-03-03 |
ran into a hockey stick? sending dozens of chunks of debris tumbling into different orbits around Earth. |
| Posted by:Hupineger Glomomp52169 |
| #20 Good find, by the way, 3dc. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-03-03 22:12 |
| #19 “It is not uncommon to have batteries overheat in space and eventually explode,” I have suffered from the same problem myself. With batteries, I mean. Sheesh. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-03-03 21:57 |
| #18 http://spacenews.com/battery-likely-the-culprit-in-military-weather-satellite-explosion/ |
| Posted by: 3dc 2015-03-03 21:43 |
| #17 It fell into the o-zone hole! -Al Roker |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-03-03 17:22 |
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| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-03-03 17:15 |
| #15 Well Hupineger Glomomp52169, your from Zip Code 52169, Wadena, Iowa. As a boy, you and your cousin, would sit under clear night skys in Wadena and watch the weather satellites fly by in the night sky. |
| Posted by: Glong Spaing8767 2015-03-03 16:39 |
| #14 Thanks Glong Spaing8767. Now, for extra credit, do you know why I selected that .jpg? |
| Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-03-03 15:47 |
| #13 Sudden spike in temperature? Who just tested a tactical laser weapon, us or China? Or Russia? |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2015-03-03 12:05 |
| #12 Chinese testing anti-satellite weapons? How's that for a theory? |
| Posted by: tipover 2015-03-03 12:05 |
| #11 "Yup there goes one more of those American military satellites" - "I wonder if those people over at McMurdo know about this Henry" |
| Posted by: Glong Spaing8767 2015-03-03 11:33 |
| #10 Also, not a lot of observers at the south pole. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2015-03-03 10:47 |
| #9 Same model had a similar explosion in 2004. Lithium batts? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2015-03-03 10:43 |
| #8 Was this one approached by one(US, Rus) of the robot shuttles? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-03-03 10:07 |
| #7 The missing graphic from the "story" dialog box Awe shucks you don't have to thank me. You are welcome. I'm just doing my best to be part of Pappys LameGraphicsDivision And the exploding satellite, well, a new member on the ground control team activated the Orville Redenbacher test sequence and the rest as they say is history. So isn't the satellite. |
| Posted by: Glong Spaing8767 2015-03-03 09:49 |
| #6 Must have been caused by the light from Venus being refracted through the hole in the ozone layer. Or Global (Or it ran into a stray energy beam. Note no wreckage scattering.) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-03-03 07:29 |
| #5 Junior scout Grm!qx---what do you know about this? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-03-03 06:52 |
| #4 Discussion link |
| Posted by: 3dc 2015-03-03 01:47 |
| #3 Blew up over Antarctica. At the predicted event time of 1723 UTC, the DMSP payload was over Antarctica, source |
| Posted by: 3dc 2015-03-03 01:44 |
| #2 if the debris isn't in the same orbital plane, then likely was a hit from junk coming in at an extreme angle. If it just splodeyed, then the tendency would be for the debris to maintain at least a partial relationship to the plane. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-03-03 00:43 |
| #1 Or it could have struck something, there's lots of junk out there. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2015-03-03 00:37 |