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Q&A Is it realistic to see satellites moving across the sky centuries after humans stopped space activity?

After an age of highly developed technology, including many different satellites in various Earth orbits, humanity loses the technology needed to control those satellites. After many centuries, how...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Minimal mass of an Earth-like satellite to seriously deter space travel?

I want to write a story taking place on the natural satellite of a gas giant, with said satellite being massive enough to prevent, or at least strongly deter, space travel, such that the resources ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Udon Nomaneim‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Udon Nomaneim‭

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Q&A What are the odds that an alien spaceship entering a low Earth orbit would collide with an orbiting body?

After centuries of careful search and travel, some intrepid extraterrestrial explorers have finally found another inhabited world! Elated with their discovery and exhausted after their long journey...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by WhittlesJr‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by WhittlesJr‭

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Q&A Feasibility of extra-lunar capture

Using our own Earth and Moon as a template is it possible for a second large body (One quarter to a third of the Moon's Size) drifting close by to be captured in a stable and permanent orbit? ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Darius Arcturus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Darius Arcturus‭

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Q&A How many satellites would we have to launch to create an artificial set of rings around Earth

Saturn has rings of debris which orbit it, and it is possible to get a satellite into an orbit that will at least last a few years, so my question is as follows; How many satellites (or just the pu...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Bob Kerman‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Bob Kerman‭

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Rigorous Science Can I use a trebuchet to launch satellites into space from a lunar colony?

I've got a lunar colony that struggles to obtain resources, so they're looking for ways to launch satellites into orbit without using up a bunch of rocket fuel. One plucky engineer has suggested ...

7 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Dubukay‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Dubukay‭

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Q&A Can space debris be used as a heat sink for re-entry?

In the world I'm building, a nuclear war and subsequent repressive chaos have led all satellites to be destroyed by the powers that be, around 10 years from now. A few years later, a small spacecra...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Ale Fernandez‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Ale Fernandez‭

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Q&A Is it possible to remotely hack the GPS system and disable GPS service worldwide?

The title pretty much says it all. I'm wondering if it is possible through "digital" means only (aka any physical disruption of satellites is not allowed) to disable the US GPS satellite constella...

7 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by conman‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by conman‭

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Rigorous Science Can I render satellite deployment impossible, or at least impractical, by exploiting the Kessler syndrome?

I want to render impractical the deployment of satellites by exploiting the Kessler syndrome. Why, you ask? Maybe I'm an evil overlord and I don't want those pesky satellites flying over my lair. ...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Zizzo‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Zizzo‭

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Q&A My perfect evil overlord plan... or is it?

Me You might call me evil but the facts are I deserve to rule all of the world, everyone & everything in it. What I already have done For years I have worked in the shadows (as much as you c...

30 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by cypher‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by cypher‭

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Q&A How can I create a new planet/satellite system that generates tides of 6-8 metres?

I'm creating a new setting for a novel. I'd like to build a world where the interaction between the planet and its satellite/satellites can generate a normal tide excursion around 6/8 metres. Furth...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Krokhmir‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Krokhmir‭

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Q&A How would a real modern day space shuttle operate without satellites or any kind of communications signals?

What role do satellites, communication towers, GPS, etc, play in the operation, and specifically the landing, of a space shuttle? If those and any other human-made things suddenly disappeared, cou...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Jon James‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Jon James‭

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Rigorous Science Could I use a series of magnetic asteroids to create a magnetic field for mars?

If I push a couple of magnetic asteroids into mars gravitational field, could they form an interlocking series of magnetic fields able to protect mars from solar winds? Size limits for asteroids ...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Clay Deitas‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Clay Deitas‭

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Q&A Lifetime of the Moon's moon

Imagine if the Moon had its own moon. A moon (likely an asteroid) that lies within the Moon's Hill Sphere. I have read elsewhere about the fate of such a moon. Over time due to the Moon being tidal...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Victorbrine Cassini‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Victorbrine Cassini‭

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Q&A A moon that is hard to orbit

I had a dream last night where I was coordinating a space program for an Earth-like planet, with a Moon much like our own. The Moon in the dream had an annoying quirk... The space program kept se...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Renan‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Renan‭

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Q&A Can a fission satellite duplicate the radiance frequencies of a star?

I sometimes think about the arrogant dwarf starsmiths in the question. How to blow up a star by accident? I pose the question in the voice of the dwarf, probably because I am hungry for down votes...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Willk‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Willk‭