Loading...Deorbiting Bounties!
Chuckled at this idea, by a commenter on NASAWATCH. “I want to see some money behind this problem in the form of bounties for de-orbiting defunct hardware. Let’s start the bidding on the most dangerous pieces and work our way down. Perhaps Spacex could add a clean-up function to starlink so that when those satellites are retired they could remove a piece or two of junk.”
There’s gold in them there orbits…
This could be your man… “More than 30 years ago, Robert Farquhar stole a spacecraft. Now he’s trying to give it back.”
yeahbut… ‘His memoir makes it clear how personal. For example, Farquhar writes that when he was hospitalized after a heart attack, the spacecraft suffered a battery failure — making him believe they shared a “supernatural connection.” ‘
True, as reliable as an Elon “5 years” you think?
Nice, but another comment on that subject led me to ponder if the streets would only be cleaned in certain areas that could afford them. Like gated communities using money to avoid mixing with the rabble.
You just invented ‘satellite-jacking’ in my head. The day will come.
One day huge space stations will be thrown away and disowned, like countless enormous ships and tankers dupped around the world. Time, my friends, time is all we need.