[FPSPACE] Space Junk // By Fred Guterl | NEWSWEEK // PublishedAug1, 2009

[James Oberg]

> What a pity if the financial crisis is blocking for a cash injection
> allowing their inventory of 10 cm objects to grow by one order of
> magnitude.

Gosh, what's keeping Europe from doing it?




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jens Kieffer-Olsen" <dstdba at post4.tele.dk>
To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Space Junk // By Fred Guterl | NEWSWEEK // 
PublishedAug1, 2009


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Oberg [mailto:jameseoberg at comcast.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 6:28 AM
>
>> Any publicity is supposed to be good publicity, but this article
>> strikes me as being pretty garbled.
>> Or am I being (again, sigh) too over-critical?
>>
>> Space Junk // By Fred Guterl | NEWSWEEK //    Published Aug 1, 2009
>
> [snippo]
>
>> The U.S. Space Surveillance Network currently uses a combination of
>> radar and optical telescopes around the globe to keep tabs on objects
>> greater than five to 10 centimeters, periodically updating the position
>> of each one. Even so, it can manage only about 13,000 objects.
>
> What a pity if the financial crisis is blocking for a cash injection
> allowing their inventory of 10 cm objects to grow by one order of
> magnitude.
>
> --
> Jens Kieffer-Olsen
> Slagelse, Denmark
>