Russia Spending Billions to Clean Up Space Junk

[jednx01]

......In recent news, U.S. military satellites have mysteriously been falling out of orbit....

 

[goldenthunder]

hmm. It costs a lot to bring stuff up there and they just want to get rid of it in burning it?

I mean for the future of space missions, wouldn't it be more cost effective to GATHER that stuff and store it? Maybe on the Moon?
I wonder what the momentum needed for this is compared to the tossing into the sea...

 

[rantoc]

US have aways been "great" at dumping without taking any responsibility for the actions, just watch the pacific garbage belts or the Chinese villages who "recycle" the electronic waste!

Why should space be any different?

 

[mr_tuel]

first to have a satellite in orbit, first to clean up. not too bad.

 

[Silmarunya]

Great thing that Russia did there - ironically, the nation that profited the most from satellites and things like that, and the nation that polluted space the most (I'm *not* looking at the US here) doesn't even try to clean up its mess, so that a relatively poor nation has to do it instead.

Sad...

 

[IzzyCraft]

People didn't read this right

A nuclear device made by Russia will be launched into space and in time will plummet back into earth.

 

[bill gates is your daddy]

Why not just send some of the illegal aliens up there with some sticks and garbage bags to take care of it. It would cost a lot less than $2,000,000,000

 

[bildo123]

[citation][nom]dudikusmaximus[/nom]id dump it all on the moon tho[/citation]

I say we fire it all towards the Sun. I doubt that would have any adverse effects, I think. I think most things would disintegrate before they even touched the Sun.

 

[grieve]

[citation][nom]fonzy[/nom]I'm really sure Russia is going to spend billions cleaning up garbage with a nuclear powered pod for the benefit of man kind.[/citation]
Funny... I see Russia doing it before the USA.

 

[keczapifrytki]

So they clean up our orbit but dump all the crap into our oceans?? I would think it would be smarter to throw it in the direction of the sun. Eventually they will get close enough to vaporize.

 

[coldmast]

In Russia the Satellites knock you from orbit!

 

[bobusboy]

Sounds like they lost something up there and want to get it before the Americans do.

 

[NightLight]

haha still noone trusts the russians 😛 I was worried when they started buying up all the iron they could get 😛 No but seriously, shouldn't they start thinking about building a self destruct or de-orbit burn into these things? I mean come on!

 

[f-14]

[citation][nom]lashton[/nom]FFS, hurling it at the sun what a stupid idea, its would liqufy first and then stay a liquid, it would not burn up, you think they have not already thought of that, and throwing it to another planet thats plain stupid![/citation]

go back to school. grade school. re-learn newtons laws of gravity as well as thermodynamics. every year we get just a tad bit closer to that great big yellow thing in the sky thanks to it's gravity that pulls in EVERYTHING from atoms to molecules, gases liquids solids and what ever else.

i've already had this discussion with bob cabana and more specifically about why they didn't bring hubble back down, refurbish it a little bit, but replace that blasted mirror, and send it back up. the answer i got was it cost too much to try and catch, and then haul all the junk back down for little benefit. nasa and congress were not willing to spend that much time and $ as it was estimated to cost about 1/2 a trillion and 3 years. that estimate was back when hubbles mirror was being worked on to try and fix it. todays cost would be over triple that. they were waiting for robotic technology and had a similar plan as the russians when enough money becomes available. from my understanding the russians are doing this to clear out the path for the international space station since the usa is so broke they should be declared bankrupt much like what happened with the soviet union.

solar flares can reach earth and are perfectly capable of wiping out life as we know it while disintegrating everything in their path. sending this stuff to the sun isn't going to hurt any one that we know of and was thought of as the solution long before you and me were born by much smarter people then ourselves.

 

[Dirtman73]

Jeezus, some of you people are paranoid.

 

[thechief73]

By the time 2023 comes around there will be plenty more space junk floating around up there, like every cell/TV/GPS/ satilite, defunct spy systems, and the nice ISS that we needed for some reason that Russia left us to pay for.

Like a lot of people on here it just seems fishy to me that Russia would do this for the good of mankind, they have reasons that they are keeping to themselves.

 

[Guest]

Anyone check to se if US spy and communication satellites are on mother Russia's space junk list?

 

[LORD_ORION]

Nice... you know the most effective EMP weapon right? It is detonating a nuke in orbit.

Notice that this special "cleaner" satellite is nuclear. So yeah, in the event of hostilities it can remove spy satellites and probably EMP us at the same time.

 

[jwl3]

I have visions of the satellite-eating space capsule in the 007 movie "You Only Live Twice."

 

[Supertrek32]

Nuclear core? They're putting a bomb in space to start the attack!

...I realize some people on this site are pretty dense, so I'll explain before they decide to attack me: That wasn't serious. A joke, if you will.