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Last year a team of people crowdfunded, bought some radios off eBay, and took over a decommissioned NASA satelite. http://observer.com/2014/08/civilians-in-aba
by jastr 11y ago
Last year a team of people crowdfunded, bought some radios off eBay, and took over a decommissioned NASA satelite.
http://observer.com/2014/08/civilians-in-abandoned-mcdonalds-seize-control-of-wandering-space-satellite/ http://observer.com/2014/08/civilians-in-abandoned-mcdonalds...
- username223 11y agoThat's both cool and scary. Someone with a bit of money and a bit more malice could cause a lot of trouble by taking over a satellite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
- ProAm 11y agoMost of these are probably completely out of fuel so I wouldnt worry about this.
- mikeash 11y agoAnd even if it had fuel, making it collide with something will be tough. And even if you do that, it's happened before without going all Kessler, although that doesn't mean it can't happen the next time.