Russian cosmonauts toss old equipment overboard on ISS spacewalk (www.space.com)

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'Wave goodbye to it. Rest in peace.'

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[-] BedSharkPal@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I assume this will just burn up on re-entry?

I know NASA ships their garbage back though, so I can only assume there's a good reason for that...

[-] zhunk@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

NASA burns up a lot of garbage. They do send some home in the cargo/crew Dragon 2s, but they burn up the entire Cygnus cargo vehicles, and, starting last year, launch garbage bags out of the Bishop airlock.

[-] swope@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

What goes around comes around.

[-] swope@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As long as the chuck it the right direction with enough speed, it shouldn't be a risk to ISS.

I think there's less uncertainly in packing garbage into a deorbiting capsule, though.

[-] soulBit@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Relevant Scott Manley video:

https://youtu.be/cxNJoaBLLNM

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