Temp spike – power system melt down due to component failure or attack by laser? Presumably space based.
Yeah the first thing that came to my mind was an ASAT test too. But a lot of satellites use hypergolics for station keeping. Maybe something spontaneously combusted or something.
Someone doing a little ASAT test?
IIRC, this isn’t the first DMSP breakup event. I recall discussions around AF Space Command headquarters of a previous DMSP breakup several years ago. I think the previous one was caused by a battery explosion.
That may be the cause here as well.
A weather monitoring satellite would be extremely sensitive to global warming and anthropogenic climate change. I’ll think I’ll pound out a paper to Nature or Scientific American: “Is Global Warming Putting Satellites in Peril?”
Good thing the Space Shuttle is grounded. Otherwise, it would be destroyed by the growing debris cloud that can change orbital altitude and inclination every 90 minutes.
Temp spike – power system melt down due to component failure or attack by laser? Presumably space based.
Yeah the first thing that came to my mind was an ASAT test too. But a lot of satellites use hypergolics for station keeping. Maybe something spontaneously combusted or something.
Someone doing a little ASAT test?
IIRC, this isn’t the first DMSP breakup event. I recall discussions around AF Space Command headquarters of a previous DMSP breakup several years ago. I think the previous one was caused by a battery explosion.
That may be the cause here as well.
A weather monitoring satellite would be extremely sensitive to global warming and anthropogenic climate change. I’ll think I’ll pound out a paper to Nature or Scientific American: “Is Global Warming Putting Satellites in Peril?”
Good thing the Space Shuttle is grounded. Otherwise, it would be destroyed by the growing debris cloud that can change orbital altitude and inclination every 90 minutes.
Golden BB micrometeor?
Not to go all Occam, but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_runaway#Batteries