Greg -
I didn't see anyone else reply, so I'll try.
No, it's not coincidence. After the Iridium collision last year, the US Air
Force decided it was in everyone's best interest for them to run conjunction
analyses against many more space objects than they had previously analyzed, and
report th
hi steve,
thanks for an informative post.
good to see the bb doing what it does best.
73 john g7hia
From: Stephen Melachrinos
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Sent: Wednesday, 14 April, 2010 0:22:34
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Space Debris:
Greg -
I didn't see a
Stephen Melachrinos wrote:
> were a major hazard to everyone, themselves included. So they must
> have allocated more resources to the problem, as this is a massive
> undertaking. (Note that some reports say that the US has about 20,000
> objects that are tracked and cataloged. In theory, this mea
It seems to me that everyone in LEO is getting warnings now.
Unfortunately that crash caused a lot of debris.
Delfi-C3 made it through ok, as well as the other cubes on our launch.
so good luck to AO-51!
Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG
Delfi-C3 mission ops team
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Tom Clark,
On 12 Apr 2010 at 12:20, wouter weggelaar wrote:
Date sent: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:20:23 +0200
From: wouter weggelaar
Subject:[amsat-bb] Re: Space Debris: Predicted near impact for
AO-51
To: k...@verizon.net
Copies to
On 4/11/2010 11:45 PM, Tom Clark, K3IO wrote:
> The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg AFB has reported that
> AO-51 will have a ~200 meter (i.e. 2 football fields) approach to
> object #34890 at 08:51Z on April 13th.
The Joint Space Command sent an update -- their latest prediction has
u get enough stuff
interacting, and it sets up a chain reaction of collisions.
Greg KO6TH
> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:16:59 -0400
> From: k...@verizon.net
> To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Space Debris: Predicted near impact for AO-51
>
> On 4/11/2010 11:45 PM
> > To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Space Debris: Predicted near impact for AO-51
> >
> > On 4/11/2010 11:45 PM, Tom Clark, K3IO wrote:
> > > The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg AFB has reported that
> > > AO-51 will have a ~2
--- On Tue, 4/13/10, Larry Teran wrote:
> From: Larry Teran
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Space Debris: Predicted near impact for AO-51
> To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
> Received: Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 1:33 PM
> Did AO-51 survived the approach?
There were several stations operating
