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ASTRA 1K De-orbited
dda writes "Following the story about ASTRA 1K launch failure: Early this morning, it has been de-orbited over the pacific ocean, due to the rapid degradation of the satellite, coupled to the technical difficulties and risks associated with such a mission, according to the SES-ASTRA operator."
geez now we use politcally correct terms for satellites getting cratered.
BC
Isn't there any safe method to get those birds up in the sky? Where is Kim Stanley Robinson's Space Elevator when you need it...
Actually it wasn't KSR who introduced the space elevator. Arthur C. Clarke had popularized it before in his novel Fountains of Paradise. In his foreword he credits Yuri Artsutanov who wrote about Space Elevators in Pravda in the 1960s.
Full Time Idiot and Miserable Sod
Nothing is real but the pain
Who do you propose they pay?
Your naivety is amusing. There is no one who can find, let alone recover that satellite - assuming any of it survived.