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ISS Orbit-Raising Attempt Fails
hpulley writes "ITAR-TASS reports that the Progress cargo ship currently docked at the ISS attempted an orbit raising burn this morning but the engine failed three minutes into the firing. Further burns are cancelled until they figure out the problem and meanwhile, the station continues to lose approximately a kilometer of altitude every week, with the rate increasing as the orbit decays. At present, the schedule says the next Progress, 20P, will be launched on December 21st, nearly 9 weeks from now. Normally the shuttle would also raise the orbit of ISS but it is not scheduled to launch until May 3rd at the earliest. Nominally the ISS orbits at 358km but if it drops to 300km, it may decay in a matter of days. It was down to 340km already on October 13th."
I bet you won't be so smug when it lands on your house.
You'll need more than your tin foil hat if the ISS lands on you.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
for building an orbiting space station without any real scientific purpose, but I built it anyway. And then its orbit decayed and it burned up upon reentry, so I built another one . . . /message for you sir
and landed in kansas...would it make a sound?
i don't care
This isn't rocket science.
That's the shit that feds me up
Fed up with watching others make impact craters on Mars the international consortium building the ISS have decided to up the ante by making a crater on Earth. Since the only thing they have in space is the ISS it was odds on that they would chose this to crash into Earth. Reports say that it should be a spectacular show especially for the people it hits.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
So which of these stories is true? I don't want to flame on the wrong story!
Why aren't the standard units being quoted
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It's a rate of 9.94193908 furlongs per fortnight
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=1+kilometr
Sure. You ever see Armageddon?
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
Finally, all that spam provides the answer:
Problems keeping it up?
Get v1ag.ra, x4na.x etc. mailed direct to your ISS and end your low-orbit problems with the ladies forever.
OK, jokes over.
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So which of these stories is true? I don't want to flame on the wrong story!
And, which one is technically a dupe, because I don't want to flame the wrong editor.
They can if they send the secret military shuttle
"But you fuck one goat..."
That's not what your mom said last night.
A chicken ran by me today yelling, "The sky is falling!!!" I thought he was just delirious from the flu.
Much like how the ISS is slowly decaying orbit over the next NINE months - which will end in atmospheric burnout, my life equally will slip into decay as my next nine months play out, and BAM! Fiery burnout!
Damn you defective condom, damn you! *shaking fist at sky* We should have put a condom on the shuttles!
You just ruined our chance to panic and flame about ISS falling from the sky. Thanks a lot! Sheesh...You and your hard facts
The orbital correction is a perpetual process. Therefore, the ISS would require a perpetual supply of fuel if it had its own rockets. This infinitely massive space station would immediately suck in the Earth, become a black hole, and devour the solar system, followed by the universe.
No, I think that's not gonna work.
Maybe this is just another marketing ploy for the Disney movie "Chicken Little".
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Why didn`t they build it on the ground then?
The Skylab is falling! The Skylab is falling!
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Maybe this is just another marketing ploy for the Disney movie "Chicken Little".
OMG! And there's no vaccine for the Chicken Little bird flu that doesn't exist yet! AHHRRHHGGG! We're all gonna maybe die in an epic pandemic!!! (Of course we're all going to die anyway, but that's no reason to give up an opportunity to create panic. :)