If you want to email either John Batchelor or Dr. Post your comments/questions on The Space Show blog URL above. Our discussion ended when John asked Darren if there were space debris cops to enforce debris mitigation efforts on launching companies and countries. Tumbling Russian rocket bodies were mentioned and I asked how the tumbling is stopped so the rocket body can be mitigated as a piece of debris. We talked about them for both the LEO orbits and the higher GEO orbits. In the latter part of our discussion, John asked Darren about remedies. We also talked about liability issues should debris do damage. Darren then spent a few minutes talking with us on how solar cycles impact the quantity of space debris in the lower orbits. McKnight talked about the debris that is cataloged and not cataloged, and the risk factor the ISS astronauts accept by going to the space station. McKnight if NASA had Plan B ready given the high number of debris objects in space. You can read about this incident from many sources on the web or you can check out the story here: Mr. The six crew members got into their Soyuz lifeboats, sealed the hatch and in the worst case scenario of a hit and damage to the ISS, they were ready for an emergency return to Earth. Please visit the John Batchelor Show website for more information about this fine program, The topics in this 20 minute plus segment focused on recent news reports regarding the risk to the ISS by incoming space junk. This program is archived on The Space Show website, podcasting, and blog sites with permission from John Batchelor. Transcripts of Space Show programs are not permitted without prior written consent from The Space Show (even if for personal use) & are a violation of the Space Show copyright. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space Show programming. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog. Topics: The ISS and space debris avoidance, space debris mitigation. Notice: Undefined index: title in flexslider_views_plugin_style_flexslider->render() (line 108 of /home/thespa21/public_html/sites/all/modules/flexslider/flexslider_views/flexslider_views_plugin_style_flexslider.inc).

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