CarolynThe earth is getting closer!
:)
The panel in front of the earth is visibly moving.
(This is as close as I’ll ever get to returning to earth, so find this so exciting. :))
Look how thin the atmosphere is.
I wonder what the risk of collision with the satellite junk is?
Space Catitude 🚀I don't think it's too high. You don't hear about ISS getting hit on the regular, and this is just one pass through the zone.
But if it DOES get struck, it'll make a pretty big pit at the much higher relative speed!
@TerryHancock Isn’t ISS in higher orbit than the space junk?
@CStamp
It may be above a lot of it -- I don't know about distribution. But ISS and Shuttle have been struck in the past.
Thing is, we're talking about TINY stuff -- even a 1 gram fleck of paint carries bullet-like levels of energy at those speeds.