Space Debris Has Hit And Damaged The International Space Station
The inevitable has occurred.
www.sciencealert.com
Scary stuff, they should make this a movie or something.
Well, the obvious solution is to design our secret squirrel spy satellites to shoot back in self defense, no?There are plenty of viable proposals to deal with the space junk problem, the major issue is that whenever any are proposed they get shot down on the grounds that they could be used as anti-satellite weapons by virtue of their operational profile, and thus are illegal under various treaties. Generally, if the US or ESA proposes a method, the Russians and Chinese freak out, if the Russians or Chinese propose one, the ESA and US freak out.
Note that this is the same shoal the proposals for 'tender' satellites that could extend orbital life of existing satellites, or deorbit them, founder on 'OMG they might use them to attack our super important secret squirrel satellites! NOOOOOOOO'.
*shoots in back of head* You weren't supposed to know!Well, the obvious solution is to design our secret squirrel spy satellites to shoot back in self defense, no?
Everything is in gradual decay...this Space Race is an ego battle between two smug billionaire fucks.
I'm amused by the Bezos response of 'It wasn't actually space! I'll be the first! Really!'