Space waste
March 14th, 2008 | by Narendra |US efforts at destroying its failed satellite
The US space department is fighting to kill its failed spy satellite (of a size roughly the size of a school bus).
The satellite was launched in Dec ‘06 which went dead due to unknown reasons after launch. Now its in the orbit of earth at about 208 km over the earth’s surface. Its sure that it would enter into the earth’s atmosphere, it is necessary to kill it keeping in mind the satellite’s fuel tank which is filled with 1000 pounds of toxic hydrazine. The President of the States have order Navy to destry the satellite by using a anti-missile interceptor aimed at the satellite, they are saying that its missiles had destroyed the satellite; but doubts persist about the fuel tank.
In every space voyager, before heading back to Earth, astronauts aboard the space shuttle have to use a little rocket science to perform one last task - filling tons of dirty laundry, empty food trays, packing foam and used equipment into the cargo carrier astronauts have to make sure trash was properly disposed of, using robotic arm to remove the carrier from the station and return it to the shuttle payload bay so that the trash could be brought back to Earth.
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