I'm writing a story that involves shutting down orbiting satellites from a locale on Earth. Anyone know how that could theoretically be achieved?
Thanks,
Andrew
Thanks,
Andrew
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Re: Know how satellites work?
Sun, June 19, 2005 - 12:43 AMEasy. Increase the Earth's mass very suddenly by an order of magnitude. Alternatively, change the gravitational constant by a suitable amount.
Wouldn't it be more fun to throw a ping-pong sattelite that would knock pre-existing ones off one by one ? -
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Re: Know how satellites work?
Thu, November 3, 2005 - 9:41 AMwould it not be easier to have 'the villian' to use a computer to change the orbit programed into the satilite. There by changing it to a decaying orbit...the classic threat of all objects orbiting the earth.... anyway most satilites have small proplusion systems to avit this problem right...i mean it is really hard for us humans to place objects in stabile orbits.
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Re: Know how satellites work?
Thu, November 3, 2005 - 10:34 AMJosh,
What did you mean my "avit"
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Re: Know how satellites work?
Fri, November 4, 2005 - 1:59 AMsorry typing to fast i meant 'avert' -
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Re: Know how satellites work?
Thu, January 19, 2006 - 11:35 PMMost satellites run at the same elevation above Earth. You could have low price rockets dump bags of sand into that region of space. The small sand particles would be traveling around 30,000mph relative to the satellite.
Tricky ; )
There was an article in Wired a few years back about that possibility.
LM
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