Quote from: high road on 08/22/2016 11:20 amExactly. They have a vested interest in estimating and controlling the risk. Wrong. It is cheaper to pay out once in a while vs cleaning up
Exactly. They have a vested interest in estimating and controlling the risk.
Quote from: mikelepage on 08/22/2016 08:20 amQuote from: Jim on 04/22/2016 02:00 pmQuote from: AncientU on 04/22/2016 02:53 amIf sufficient 'bounty' was placed on every de-orbited chunk of junk -- using space junk creating and/or space using nations' cash Again, who is going to pay for it? NASA, USAF or ESA isn't. nor is Russian or China.Insurers/underwriters of satellites? Most of the debris is not from commercial spacecraft. So no insurers/underwriters
Quote from: Jim on 04/22/2016 02:00 pmQuote from: AncientU on 04/22/2016 02:53 amIf sufficient 'bounty' was placed on every de-orbited chunk of junk -- using space junk creating and/or space using nations' cash Again, who is going to pay for it? NASA, USAF or ESA isn't. nor is Russian or China.Insurers/underwriters of satellites?
Quote from: AncientU on 04/22/2016 02:53 amIf sufficient 'bounty' was placed on every de-orbited chunk of junk -- using space junk creating and/or space using nations' cash Again, who is going to pay for it? NASA, USAF or ESA isn't. nor is Russian or China.
If sufficient 'bounty' was placed on every de-orbited chunk of junk -- using space junk creating and/or space using nations' cash
MAUI, Hawaii – A senior Pentagon official said the U.S. Air Force will need to rethink how it issues satellite collision warnings when a new space object tracking system goes online or risk overwhelming satellite operators and hardware systems with overly cautious alerts.In 2018, the Air Force’s next-generation space object tracking system, known as the Space Fence, will go online and detect satellites and space debris 5 centimeters and larger. Defense Department officials said they are optimistic that on the best days, the $900 million Space Fence, built by Lockheed Martin on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, may be able to track objects as small as 1 centimeter. That’s a marked improvement over the Defense Department’s current network of radars and sensors, which tracks objects 10 centimeters and larger.But that additional precision means the Air Force will have tracking data for 200,000 objects, up from the approximately 20,000 objects it tracks today.