What Happens to Old Satellites When They Die? 

meh, spacex is somehow succeeding so why not ?

That's too liberal.

@@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 I was thinking about it from a free market perspective

Can be combined with an orbital re-assembly station. It's cheaper and easier to launch lighter payloads into orbit, re-assemble the mission there and relaunch the heavier payload from orbit. Such a station could also be used to collect debris.

Good idea 👍👍

That is a total Hank Scorpio plan - I smell a new Simpsons episode!

You'd need a GIGANTIC multi-nation effort with billions of dollars and thousands of people all working on the project in order to get such a "solar Power array" off the ground to begin with, and there'd be people watching constantly to make sure such a hijacking never occurs. Go read PowerSat by Ben Bova for examples of how you'd pull off using such a powersat to fry people on the ground, and how easily shut down/ destroyed such a satellite would be...

@@Shinzon23 Um... no! Lunar manufacturing base to build satellite with multiple Ion thrusters to allow for exact orbital placement; both solar technologies and laser technologies have advanced in the last several decades, becoming cheaper, more powerful and producible in mass quantities. Launching from Lunar base far cheaper than launching from Earth... and if you go the "multinational" route, you risk compromising your security, thus limiting your ability to hold the planet for ransom later. As I said, a total Hank Scorpio plan... duuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

@@stone1andonly Your assumption is flawed; we still don't have a permanent human presence on the Moon, Ion thrusters really require hard to acquire materials like Xenon, argon, etc, all of which are rather rare even on eart or otherwise difficult to get at, and which we'd need some way to mine the Gas Giants to acquire massive amounts of them... you can use other things than Xenon in a Ion Thruster, but its the gold standard for propellants for use in a Ion Thruster. Also, Althought yes, you COULD make solar mirrors out of the regolith on the moon, you'd still need metals for things like electronics and structural supports and whatnot, and there isn't much research done on ore deposits of things like aluminum, platinum, etc... I also doubt there is very much of the rarer metals on the moon to begin with; the moon is, after all, the remains of the material blown off into space when Theia slammed into the earth billions of years ago... Also, you'd need one HELL of a manufacturing plant on the Moon if you were going to try manufacturing computer parts to the micron-scale processes modern computer chips are built to in billion dollar factories, and thats simply not something easily replicated in the lower gravity of the Moon. So, no, banking on the moon in order to manufacture a orbital powersat that can pull double duty as a death laser is somewhat premature; odds are we'll have successfully captured and orbited suitably metal rich asteroids for orbital mining long before we have enough of a manufacturing base on the Moon that could start churning out orbital mirrors.... Also, by that time, we'd have the capabilities to start working on a Dyson Swarm beaming back power from orbit around Sol itself; why bother with a orbital array at that point?

same

Yeah geosynchronous satellites orbit around 35000km and it even shows in the video. How did they miss that

i also picked that up. huge error i actually unsubbed. cant.make mistakes like that when your audience is in the space community

Kyle Davidson human made a mistake...news at 11.

came here to say this. How did he miss that. rookie

@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 That's a rather important distinction, i daresay.

Eventually the Satellites stopped reporting..

Ha

J. J.

The great big orbit in the sky. Wait a minute......

@@nooranik21 do you mean orgy...😏😆

Exacly. And we don't intent to clean it...

Why don't we recycle them reuse parts

What about woman?

the god of space and goddess of the stars will be mad over this

If it is a ring

Playmaker only because captain Nemo sailed by there (and probably died there too).

nah let's start using Burgers per Freedom Rocket as our measurement

Ok Bmszoomer guns per burger

Nope let's use Toyota corollas' as a unit of measurement

JoeAceJR And why would globalization be bad anyway?

Christian W do you not know both? I get kind of tired of this debate here in the states we are taught in school both systems but we tend to use one I personally like the metric system for mechanical stuff like nuts and bolts but I like to use miles and feet for distance

collision

Space vibe

yea stop messing with them! >:(

He meant so far.

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I 11 year old 12 dis month

Ortherner Nobody asked

@Renato Digitalo It was so i get attention.

Cool story bro

hey look, we gotta look tidy for the aliens man

You can skip them you know....

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That would take a lot of fuel and speed, also the retired device would most likely just slam into the moon destroying it in the process.

@@redsharp6672 Fuel would most likely not be a problem, since there is no air friction in space. We only need the final burn for a steeper angle towards the moon. Obviously this angle would be less steep than atmosphere re-entry because our goal isn't to burn the device through acceleration. Imagine if we do this for 10000 times, there would be couple of sensors, pieces of shield that survived on the moon. No matter the case, it should be less expensive than the mentioned alternatives?

@@X_platform You're very much underestimating the fuel requirements. While there isn't friction in space to slow down objects, there is still gravity holding things in orbit. Even under immense power, the moon is days away from earth.

kiryu nil you have no idea about physics or orbital mechanics then, do you? Literally tons of fuel would be needed to move from earth orbit to a lunar orbit. It’s not feasible at all.

Would require all world powers to sit down and sign treaty concerning the use of such a laser.

"Functional and can be remotely controlled" ya pedantic putz

So what do objects do in space?

ReD_ WaVe i’m looking for that too man.

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@@brawler3188 LEGEND 🤯

Nah bro just strap a sat to the side of the human stage it'll be all G.

@@ianneilson facts