Friday, April 18, 2008

Space has got some Junk in its Trunk

Watch out for more of those damn supercriticality effects. (Wow, that sounds like a pretty frightening word...)

"A successful Chinese missile test last year that destroyed one of China's own aging satellites has substantially added to space debris around Earth, increasing the danger that a chain reaction of colliding space junk could threaten parts of the world's satellite network" (la times)

2 comments:

jg3 said...

SUPERcriticality? Is there any other kind of criticality?

.jeff. said...

yes. of the SUPER variety.