In a 780 km orbit, that's going to be up there for a while.
#18SPCS confirmed breakup of ORBCOMM OG1 sat FM 16, #25417, on 22 Dec @ 0712 UTC - tracking 34 pieces - no indication caused by collision.
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Do satellites often break up without collision?
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It’s a machine. It can fall apart at any time.
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Thank goodness Sandra Bullock is safe here on the good Earth
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Agree to disagree.
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Those satellites used the Nickel-Hydrogen battery so perhaps one of the pressure vessels of individual battery cells broke up?
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"no indication caused by collision" translates to we weren't tracking anything that could have collided. But it doesn't mean that there WASN'T a collision.
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Anyone have outside confirmation this was not a collision?
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Our Space Situational Awareness is still weak! As long as multiple conflicting hypotheses can explain the same evidence, we are crippled! Our investment must be in “ambiguity removal” with a goal of “single hypothesis explains the evidence!” We want deduction instead of abduction
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