Re: More debris in space

On Apr 10, 6:20 am, jacob navia <ja...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
behlin...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

You are completely offbase and making an issue of nothing and will
continue to be not a problem

The volume of space around the earth (using a radius of 40000 km)where
spacecraft debris is a problem is 2.7E+14 cubic km
the volume of space for trailing and leading earth orbits (torus)  is
4.4E+20 cubic km

This volume is 1.6 million times larger and there will only be a few
spacecraft ( less than 10 over the next 20 years) using this orbit.
It is a non problem

You forget one thing: an earth trailing orbit behind the sun
is completely worthless since communication between earth and the
spacecraft is blocked by the sun.

More or less the half of that space is not really usable.

Then, you have joined leading and trailing orbits, what is not
what we were speaking about. You are counting the whole torus.


Yes, that is space is "viable" in this discussion because spacecraft
in leading and trailing orbits eventually end up going behind the
sun. Their missions are over by then but still they move there. Same
thing goes for spacecraft in earth orbit. Many are moved to useless
orbits to avoid collisions

The problem won't ever exist for this orbit
.

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