Comments on SatTrackCam Leiden (b)log: Some first analytical results on the debris from the Russian ASAT test of 15 November 2021

Excited to see where satellite technology goes in ...

2022-01-14T05:14:19.836+01:00

Excited to see where satellite technology goes in the next 10 years. Hopefully signal disruption doesn't become an issue. Satellite Dish Cover

I Like to add one more important thing here, The G...

2021-12-16T08:07:54.176+01:00

I Like to add one more important thing here, The Global Space Situational Awareness Market is expected to exceed more than US$ 1.5 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 4.50% during the forecast period.

You will have seen reference to the remarks on Rus...

2021-12-06T12:18:47.354+01:00

You will have seen reference to the remarks on Russian TV about this ASAT weapon allowing destruction of US GPS satellites. The amount of energy to get to the GPS 20000km height is very large, ~7km/s, which is a very different requirement to interception of a LEO target. The limited information I have seen about Nudol suggests something similar in mass to the Astra rocket so might be capable of 7km/s if it were needed. The words on Russian TV could just be propaganda but if they aren't then was the recent mission a simulation of a GPS interception in terms of relative velocities? GPS orbital velocity is 4km/s so going downrange in the recent test would have reduced the relative velocity to something around that, if that was the test objective.

regards

Richard