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[N6BY]

View attachment 151563This is just amazing how technology works. Here is an image of earth with a plot of all satellites around our tiny planet. I found Galaxy 19 in this plot as well, the tiny dot in blue.
Here is the link:

Satellite Map | Explore Active Satellites Orbiting Earth

Satellite map of active satellites orbiting the Earth. View satellites along with information about the purpose, operator, orbital parameters, launch date & location of the satellite.

maps.esri.com

Very cool find! You can rotate the earth and see it from a different perspective.

I didn't realize that there were so many inclined orbit geosynchronous satellites. I wonder what is on them?

 

[Far32]

Speaking "galacticly" we must have the messiest front yard around.

It is amazing that we can still see the sun.

 

[Far32]

Speaking "galacticly" we must have the messiest front yard around.

messiest yard that is, Front back and all around. I wonder what all of these frequencies are doing to us.

 

[HipKat]

And that doesn't include all the millions of pieces of "space junk" -- dead satellites, upper rocket stages, nuts, bolts, astronaut gloves, and other chunks of old space hardware -- orbiting the planet. It's starting to become a real hazard out there to the ISS and other functioning spacecraft/satellites. There are ongoing concerns about collision potential.

Elon needs to develop a way to retrieve or destroy all that debris. Perhaps send it hurtling back to burn up in the atmosphere

 

[FTA4PA]

messiest yard that is, Front back and all around. I wonder what all of these frequencies are doing to us.

 

[rmccolman]

It's definitely a potential collision problem, especially in low earth orbit (where the space station is).

No issue with blocking the Sun, though. The graphic display makes it look like the whole sky is getting filled up with stuff, but that's just the effect of the graphic -- on the scale shown, each dot would be hundreds of miles across, rather than a few feet across. And many of the chunks of space debris are only inches across.

As far as cleanup goes, there are efforts underway. Here's one:

New Effort To Clean Up Space Junk Reaches Orbit

Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology that could help capture space junk, some of the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth.

www.npr.org

 

[TV Junkie]

Elon needs to develop a way to retrieve or destroy all that debris. Perhaps send it hurtling back to burn up in the atmosphere

Best when we have the ability to just send it into the sun when we are done with it IMO

 

[N5XZS]

Hopefully, sooner the better bring up droids for clean up on space junks and dump it into for reentry into Earth's atmosphere, or even the sun itself.

And yes, there will be a space junkyard for recycling or get spare parts, there's money to be made!

 

[rmccolman]

Hopefully, sooner the better bring up droids for clean up on space junks and dump it into for reentry into Earth's atmosphere, or even the sun itself.

And yes, there will be a space junkyard for recycling or get spare parts, there's money to be made!

The challenge with sending this stuff to the Sun is achieving escape velocity from Earth. Lots of energy would be required to do that, whereas very little energy would be required to trigger a de-orbit burn and have the stuff disintegrate in Earth's atmosphere.

Richard

 

[Foxbat]

The challenge with sending this stuff to the Sun is achieving escape velocity from Earth.

Besides, wait a few billion years, and the Sun comes to us!

Will Earth survive when the sun becomes a red giant?

Since the beginning of human history, people have understood that the sun is a central part of life as we know it. It's importance to countless mythological and cosmological systems across the globe is a testament to this. But as our understand of it matured, we came to learn that the sun was...

phys.org

 

[N5XZS]

Funny thing how orbital mechanics, most people's thinks sending space junk into sun is easy, due to Sun's gravity field strength to pull the space junk in!

Hopefully our Civilization will reach Star Trek technology level at some point in the future, assuming we don't blow our ass off.

But importantly thing is stay positive!