{"id":8820,"date":"2019-06-01T11:54:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T15:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8820"},"modified":"2019-06-01T11:55:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T15:55:48","slug":"dying-satellite-deploys-a-drag-sail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8820","title":{"rendered":"Dying satellite deploys a drag sail"},"content":{"rendered":"

MonSFFen may remember that I gave a presentation on the problems of space junk. Here is an example of a company doing the right thing!<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-48473698<\/a><\/p>\n

The orbital highways above the planet are set to become congested with thousands of spacecraft in the coming years, and serious efforts need to be made to tidy away redundant hardware and other space junk if collisions are to be avoided.<\/em><\/p>\n

TechDemoSat-1 was launched in 2014 to trial a number of new in-orbit technologies but has now reached the end of its operational life.<\/p>\n

To bring it out of the sky faster than would ordinarily be the case, it has deployed a “drag sail”.
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\nThis large membrane will catch residual air molecules at its altitude of 635km and pull TDS-1 quickly into Earth’s atmosphere where it will burn up.<\/p>\n

There is a lot of interest currently in “clean space” technologies.<\/p>\n

Pictures here<\/a>