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Broadcast sats possibly in danger from drifting milsat
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<blockquote data-quote="Analoguesat" data-source="post: 581620" data-attributes="member: 176362"><p>Fragmented geosats are every sat operators nightmare. One collision from debris, or a meteor could cause a domino effect cascade failure which could make the geosat orbit unusable for thousands of years. If that happens wave goodbye to a huge part of our technological society.</p><p></p><p>Its not just the abandoned DSP23 milsat thats a potential threat now, Astra 5A failed last week and is reported to have started drifting off station, becoming the latest broadcast sat to not have been disposed of to high orbit safely.</p><p></p><p>I was rading an article just this week which said that at least a dozen dead birds were disposed of too low - including Gals 2 one of the Eutelsat 2F series, & Hispasat 1A</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Analoguesat, post: 581620, member: 176362"] Fragmented geosats are every sat operators nightmare. One collision from debris, or a meteor could cause a domino effect cascade failure which could make the geosat orbit unusable for thousands of years. If that happens wave goodbye to a huge part of our technological society. Its not just the abandoned DSP23 milsat thats a potential threat now, Astra 5A failed last week and is reported to have started drifting off station, becoming the latest broadcast sat to not have been disposed of to high orbit safely. I was rading an article just this week which said that at least a dozen dead birds were disposed of too low - including Gals 2 one of the Eutelsat 2F series, & Hispasat 1A [/QUOTE]
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