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A bit off topic, but can we start straight up catching these in Low Earth Orbit? What's the hard part here? Detecting them before they're close or getting a ear
by 3pt14159 4y ago
A bit off topic, but can we start straight up catching these in Low Earth Orbit? What's the hard part here? Detecting them before they're close or getting a earth orbiting satellite to the precise right place at the right time?
- ligerzer0 4y agoCatch it with what?
- warmwaffles 4y agoA big net, or a gigantic baseball glove.
- dboreham 4y agoLike this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite)#Recovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite)#Recovery
- warmwaffles 4y agoI was thinking something more like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_glove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_glove
- ceejayoz 4y ago> What's the hard part here? Detecting, then catching a small object, in space, traveling at 10-20 thousand kilometers per hour. Much easier to go out to an asteroid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSIRIS-REx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSIRIS-REx
- ericbarrett 4y agoEven faster than that! Meteors have a relative velocity between 11 and 71 km/s (40,000-255,000 kph). Anything faster than that would be interstellar, which is uncommon but not unheard of.
- perihelions 4y agoPedantically, the lower limit of velocity relative to low-orbiting satellites is around 3 km/s. The 11 - 71 km/s figure is relative to the ground.
- dekhn 4y agohttps://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stardust/mission/index-aerogel-rd.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stardust/mission/index-ae... (but that's for comets)
- throw1234651234 4y ago"What's the hard part here?" hahahaha
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago> What's the hard part here? Physics
- comprambler 4y agoGive kerbal space program a shot. It teaches you hard lessons about this and others.