Jettisoning @Space_Station hardware we no longer need with the @csa_asc robotic arm.

Jul 17, 2023 · 6:37 PM UTC

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One correction: I said off the cuff the orbit would decay over the coming days to weeks. It’s actually years – reentry timing has high uncertainty, but estimates center around summer 2025. Primary driver of orbital decay is drag from tiny remnants of Earth’s atmosphere.
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Atmospheric density exponentially decays with altitude, but the decay rate at orbital altitudes depends on solar activity, making long-term predictions difficult.
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Thanks for sharing that @Astro_Woody ! Does it make sense to have this equipment decaying for a year or so? Is it risky or more dangerous to use a small compressed air "impulse" gadget attached to the equipment and release the compressed gas as a soft bump to haste the process?
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They need to come up away to incinerate things using either solar or nuclear power instead of just dumping shit
Yeah sure just put more junk into space for us to have to clean up later.
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Look how dumb this look,glass in space?he would need a space suit at all times there is no *ARTIFICIAL ATMOSPHERE MACHINERY THAT IS NOT REAL,SO TELL ME HOW DO A WHITE MAN ROBOT SURVIVE IN SPACE?
Shame the camera couldn’t quite focus on it.
Nice explanation and info :) Tweet pinned with a blue-W pin "where you were at time of tweet" (near the #equator in the western #PacificOcean) on interactive map isspix.com/ISS069.
Flat earthers hate this video
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