[FPSPACE] Space Junk

[Keith Gottschalk]

    This ought to be a matter for COPUOS to take up.  It is only fair
that all space powers should pay for this in proportion to the
percentage of space debris that each of them has caused. As well as ESA,
Japan. And it has to be admitted that there is even one very deceased
South African microsat (Sunsat) floating away about 800 kms up.

warm regards, Keith.

>>>> "James Oberg" <jameseoberg at comcast.net> 08/04/09 5:16 PM >>>
>> 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?
>
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>----- 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
>> 
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