Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: ghi on July 14, 2017, 03:00:42 PM
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.. if everything goes according to plan, you never know, "American components, Russian components...all made in Taiwan" :rofl
"If the satellite manages to successfully inflate its metallic reflectors to full size, it has the potential to become the brightest human-made object in orbit. Some reports have even speculated that it could become the third brightest object in the entire sky, outshined by only the moon and the sun."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/brightest-satellite-mayak-russian-space-science/
"Soyuz rocket lifts off with 73 satellites"
https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/07/14/soyuz-rideshare-launch/
http://cosmomayak.com/
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But why dose it have to be bright?
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Will be probed or violated? :old:
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But why dose it have to be bright?
The idea is to reflect light from Sun into space junk , should help illuminate track and clean in future. I read about similar project years ago planning to place a large mirror on orbit and illuminate places located at high latitude around arctic circle during long dark winter.
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Its a giant metallic triangle. The Soviets are going to use that for mind control. :old:
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Its a giant metallic triangle. The Soviets are going to use that for mind control. :old:
We are all safe then :)
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The idea is to reflect light from Sun into space junk , should help illuminate track and clean in future. I read about similar project years ago planning to place a large mirror on orbit and illuminate places located at high latitude around arctic circle during long dark winter.
The Japanese recently tried the same thing and failed.