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Really interesting wikipedia article on them too (the article borrows from it a bit). This is really amusing to me: > The Michigan Exploration Laboratory (MXL
by penagwin 7y ago
Really interesting wikipedia article on them too (the article borrows from it a bit).
This is really amusing to me:
> The Michigan Exploration Laboratory (MXL) suspects that the M-Cubed CubeSat, a joint project run by MXL and JPL, became magnetically conjoined to Explorer-1 Prime, a second CubeSat released at the same time, via strong onboard magnets used for passive attitude control, after deploying on October 28, 2011.[5] This is the first non-destructive latching of two satellites.[6]
- somesortofsystm 7y agoHonestly .. now I need to know about the first destructive latching of satellites more than anything else on HN today ..
- erigeron 7y agoCheck out the Kosmos-2251/Iridium-33 collision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision
- kartikkumar 7y agoTS Kelso at AGI put out an interesting white paper with more details: https://www.agi.com/resources/white-papers/analysis-of-the-iridium-33-cosmos-2251-collision https://www.agi.com/resources/white-papers/analysis-of-the-i... Kelso is also the brains behind CelesTrak for debris tracking: https://www.celestrak.com https://www.celestrak.com There are also a number of videos on YouTube of the collision profile, made using AGI's Systems Toolkit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oRC9dHKI9Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oRC9dHKI9Y
- perl4ever 7y agoI'm unclear what "at a speed of" means. Is this relative velocity or just how fast they were both orbiting? Why phrase it this way, I wonder.