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Title: Mind your head ...
Post by: Entwood on 01 April 2018, 19:27:50
Tiangong 1 is due to re-enter the atmosphere sometime tonight, totally out of control ..... luckily nowhere near the UK ...

Info here ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43557446

and track it here .... (scroll down for the map, click "Real Time Tracking"

http://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=37820#TOP

:)
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: STEMO on 01 April 2018, 19:35:04
It's altitude is increasing  :-\
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: Entwood on 01 April 2018, 19:38:40
It's altitude is increasing  :-\

perigee v apogee .. its orbit is an elipse NOT a circle ..

at the moment its getting further away but when it next "swings in" it will be lower than the last time and be even more affected by the atmosphere .....   
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 01 April 2018, 19:39:51
Tiangong 1 is due to re-enter the atmosphere sometime tonight, totally out of control ..... luckily nowhere near the UK ...

Info here ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43557446

and track it here .... (scroll down for the map, click "Real Time Tracking"

http://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=37820#TOP

:)

I hear it is likely to completely wipe out Barnsley.

A terrible loss to the UK. :)
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: STEMO on 01 April 2018, 19:40:29
It's altitude is increasing  :-\

perigee v apogee .. its orbit is an elipse NOT a circle ..

at the moment its getting further away but when it next "swings in" it will be lower than the last time and be even more affected by the atmosphere .....
Yes, of course.
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: STEMO on 01 April 2018, 19:42:39
Gotta stop staring at that, I'll miss Top Gear.  ;D
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: Entwood on 01 April 2018, 19:46:45
It's altitude is increasing  :-\

perigee v apogee .. its orbit is an elipse NOT a circle ..

at the moment its getting further away but when it next "swings in" it will be lower than the last time and be even more affected by the atmosphere .....
Yes, of course.

Now (19:45 BST) just south of South Africa, altitude 145 Km (decreasing) .. check back in about 2 hours and see the difference ....  :)
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: STEMO on 01 April 2018, 19:52:57
According to the chap at the top, Joseph Remis, it could be down as early as quarter past nine.
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: Entwood on 01 April 2018, 20:06:27
Lowest altitude (perigee) that orbit 140.6 Km   :) which was 2.3 Km lower than the previous orbit ....
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: Entwood on 01 April 2018, 20:32:41
Highest altitude (apogee) that orbit 147.8 Km .. previously 151.3 Km ....     :)
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: ronnyd on 01 April 2018, 21:36:39
Nice to know that we, (the human race), are slinging stuff up there with no real idea when or where it,s gonna land. ::)
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 01 April 2018, 21:39:16
Nice to know that we, (the human race), are slinging stuff up there with no real idea when or where it,s gonna land. ::)
Hardly a new concept... ;D
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: ronnyd on 01 April 2018, 22:06:09
Nice to know that we, (the human race), are slinging stuff up there with no real idea when or where it,s gonna land. ::)
Hardly a new concept... ;D
Still doesn,t alter the fact though does it? ???
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: STEMO on 02 April 2018, 07:10:41
Well, it's down. I didn't feel a thing.  :)
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: BazaJT on 02 April 2018, 07:36:59
Apparently a new type is being sent up to the space station for testing/experimenting which is designed to whizz about collecting the space junk that's floating about up there.
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: TheBoy on 02 April 2018, 11:01:17
Well, it's down. I didn't feel a thing.  :)
The earth didn't move for me last night either ;D
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: shyboy on 02 April 2018, 13:17:12
All that should be necessary is to somehow reduce the orbital speed and let these things burn up in the atmosphere on re-entry, assuming most would not reach the surface in dangerous sized pieces.
Could you get insurance, I wonder? :D
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: grifter on 02 April 2018, 16:40:10
Tsk tsk made in china - says it all!
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: TheBoy on 02 April 2018, 16:44:36
Tsk tsk made in china - says it all!
Beats British efficiency - I have something on its way from China. Its taken ArseholeForce a week for their plane to get from China to Coventry (never knew a plane could stay up for a week), and then been held up in customs for ages.
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 02 April 2018, 20:03:50
Tsk tsk made in china - says it all!
Beats British efficiency - I have something on its way from China. Its taken ArseholeForce a week for their plane to get from China to Coventry (never knew a plane could stay up for a week), and then been held up in customs for ages.
They're waiting for you to get a little more desperate.. So you don't baulk at their "handling charge". ::)
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: TheBoy on 03 April 2018, 17:35:03
Tsk tsk made in china - says it all!
Beats British efficiency - I have something on its way from China. Its taken ArseholeForce a week for their plane to get from China to Coventry (never knew a plane could stay up for a week), and then been held up in customs for ages.
They're waiting for you to get a little more desperate.. So you don't baulk at their "handling charge". ::)
Its Arsehole Force, so will be £12 handling, plus whatever HRMC decide (which will be VAT and 2.5% import I suspect). tinkers.
Title: Re: Mind your head ...
Post by: aaronjb on 04 April 2018, 07:52:52
Tsk tsk made in china - says it all!
Beats British efficiency - I have something on its way from China. Its taken ArseholeForce a week for their plane to get from China to Coventry (never knew a plane could stay up for a week), and then been held up in customs for ages.
They're waiting for you to get a little more desperate.. So you don't baulk at their "handling charge". ::)
Its Arsehole Force, so will be £12 handling, plus whatever HRMC decide (which will be VAT and 2.5% import I suspect). tinkers.

I just paid the import duty on some bits from Shell Valley Roadsters in the US. £177.. not sure what I get for that £177; Mr P Hammond's undying love, maybe?