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It reads almost like the Musk hit pieces typically delivered under the cover of op-eds.. "Blue, we are uncomfortable with the possibility of collision on our c

by Rapzid 7y ago

It reads almost like the Musk hit pieces typically delivered under the cover of op-eds.. "Blue, we are uncomfortable with the possibility of collision on our current courses, requesting you adjust course 5 degrees starboard." "Nah Red, looking all good here." "Okay, we will move." - Every 5 minutes on the water probably

_visgean 7y ago
> "Nah Red, looking all good here." more like "nah." spacex did not inform ESA that the risk is lower or anything like that.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y ago
  I don't see where it positively states that SpaceX provided no reasoning. In my reading of the article, Krag did not speak directly with SpaceX. SpaceX were alerted to the possibility of collision by the U.S. military, and nobody who was party to that conversation is quoted in the article. All we know for sure is that SpaceX did not proactively reach out to the Space Debris Office at the ESA about this issue, at least as of the time the interview with Krag occurred (which would not have been more than a few hours after the incident to get this blog post written and published by 4PM ET given the incident occurred at 7AM ET).
- Rapzid 7y ago
  We don't know the extent of the communication from this article.
javagram 7y ago
The article explains the ESA is raising this issue because there is no such mechanism to perform “every 5 minutes” avoidance maneuvers right now. The current process is manual and slow. 22,000 satellites in that orbit mean that picking up the telephone to call each other to say “hey are you going to move your satellite to avoid X possible collision on Y date?” isn’t going to scale, so they’re saying that a better system needs to be put in place. We’ve seen just recently with multiple US Navy collisions causing loss of life that using “common sense” to avoid collisions instead of being prepared and planning doesn’t always work out well..

by Rapzid 7y ago

_visgean 7y ago

> "Nah Red, looking all good here." more like "nah." spacex did not inform ESA that the risk is lower or anything like that.

asdfasgasdgasdg 7y ago
I don't see where it positively states that SpaceX provided no reasoning. In my reading of the article, Krag did not speak directly with SpaceX. SpaceX were alerted to the possibility of collision by the U.S. military, and nobody who was party to that conversation is quoted in the article. All we know for sure is that SpaceX did not proactively reach out to the Space Debris Office at the ESA about this issue, at least as of the time the interview with Krag occurred (which would not have been more than a few hours after the incident to get this blog post written and published by 4PM ET given the incident occurred at 7AM ET).
Rapzid 7y ago
We don't know the extent of the communication from this article.

javagram 7y ago

The article explains the ESA is raising this issue because there is no such mechanism to perform “every 5 minutes” avoidance maneuvers right now. The current process is manual and slow. 22,000 satellites in that orbit mean that picking up the telephone to call each other to say “hey are you going to move your satellite to avoid X possible collision on Y date?” isn’t going to scale, so they’re saying that a better system needs to be put in place. We’ve seen just recently with multiple US Navy collisions causing loss of life that using “common sense” to avoid collisions instead of being prepared and planning doesn’t always work out well..