They're geosynchronous Stoney lol. Their relative position doesn't move. They don't all the sudden defy physics and go flying around like bats. If Elon can land a rocket in reverse on a floating barge in 20' seas... pretty sure 86 miles is a big enough window. What-eeever.
Astroscale? In 2018 they attempted the impossible... A rendering showing ELSA-d's concept of operations. The mission aims to demonstrate technology that could help clear space debris. Astroscale A demonstration mission to test an idea to clean up space debris launched Monday morning local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology that could help capture space junk, the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth. The more than 8,000 metric tons of debris threaten the loss of services we rely on for Earth-bound life, including weather forecasting, telecommunications and GPS systems. The spacecraft works by attempting to attach itself to dead satellites and pushing them toward Earth to burn up in the atmosphere. ELSA-d, which stands for End-of-Life Services by Astroscale, will be carried out by a "servicer satellite" and a "client satellite" that launched together, according to Astroscale, the Japan-based company behind the mission. Using a magnetic docking technology, the servicer will release and try to "rendezvous" with the client, which will act as a mock piece of space junk. The mission, which will be run from the U.K., will carry out this catch and release process repeatedly over the course of six months. The goal is to prove the servicer satellite's ability to track down and dock with its target in varying levels of complexity. Another cool Japanese company. )
NASA has a set of long-standing guidelines that are used to assess whether the threat of such a close pass is sufficient to warrant evasive action or other precautions to ensure the safety of the International Space Station and its crew. These guidelines essentially draw an imaginary box, known as the “pizza box" because of its flat, rectangular shape, around the space vehicle. This box is about 2.5 miles deep by 30 miles across by 30 miles long This is for something already up there! 30 miles across. This does not take into account low orbiting satellites of which they are a ton. Read the NASA piece it's interesting. Chinese blew something up and created alot of this garbage!<-- That's all we need are these guys on the moon throwing their garbage upwards. Things are apt to get much more tight and so regulation must come but from where-- The UN.
OMG Breaking News-- The space junk problem is getting a lot worse: Astroscale CEO Thu, July 8, 2021, 10:25 AM As the commercialization and industrialization of space becomes more of an inevitability with every successful launch by companies like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic (SPCE), space debris, or space junk, is becoming a growing concern of both corporate and government aerospace entities alike. The European Space Agency (ESA) estimated that there are 29,000 objects larger than 10 centimeters, 670,000 objects larger than one centimeter, and more than 170 million objects larger than one millimeter currently in Earth's orbit. Space junk consists of both manmade objects such as material left over from space missions and natural objects like meteoroids. Problems can arise as space junk can be difficult or even impossible to track depending on size, and collision with unmanned or manned spacecraft can spell doom for missions or those onboard. “There is traffic management for cars, ships, and airplanes, but there's no space traffic management,” Astroscale CEO and founder Nobu Okada told Yahoo Finance Live. “[It is such that] now the density of space debris has reached the critical level where the chain reaction of collisions can happen in the near future. So we've been talking with many governments [to work on a solution].” Astroscale, founded in 2013, is a private orbital debris removal company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and describes itself as “the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations.” The company signed a $3.4 million agreement in May to develop space debris removal technology with OneWeb<----? According to Okada, space debris removal technology revolves around the use of satellites, which capture debris in orbit, stabilize it, and then bring it back down into Earth’s atmosphere, where it is incinerated upon reentry. He said that the debris can travel around the Earth as fast as 7 to 8 kilometers per second, which is 10 times faster than a bullet. Currently, the satellites are only able to capture one piece of space debris at a time. Okada said that Astroscale is currently working to develop a satellite that would be able to capture multiple pieces at once. “We just developed the world's first demonstration satellite, which is up there in space right now,” Okada said. “So we are going to show the demonstration quite soon.” [Read more: 'The next billionaires will be made in space:' Astra CEO] Talks between world leaders at the 2021 G7 Summit were a pivotal step in reaching a consensus surrounding the space debris crisis, according to Okada. Delegates from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.S., the U.K. and the E.U. agreed to make the problem a priority in order to ensure the sustainability of space usage. Okada also emphasized the importance of removing larger pieces of space debris sooner rather than later, and said that the threat of a space debris collision “chain reaction,” otherwise known as the Kessler syndrome, is looming. “There are so many near-misses every day and the collision probability is low,” Okada said. “However, there are more than 30,000 objects that are traveling 16 times around the Earth per day. So, [eventually] they collide with each other and there are multiple breakups right now. So if we do not take action, the debris will just continue colliding with each other and become small particles and we cannot place satellites anywhere.”
Well I guess this is a rolling correction. The transports peaked two months ago as did manufacturing, Banks and airlines are 15% lower... It's just us not noticing. What changes a market's direction is growth slowdown. Now they are talking booster shots again. After telling us no. Everyone is saying Delta variant is not a US problem I don't see it that way. I know a bunch of folks who got only one of their two shots-- they are at risk. You know something is up when you suddenly start hearing about a steel company you never heard of before... Outokumpu price target raised to EUR 6.90 from EUR 6.80 at JPMorgan 13:54 OUTKY JPMorgan analyst Luke Nelson raised the firm's price target on Outokumpu to EUR 6.90 from EUR 6.80 and keeps an Overweight rating on the shares. Outokumpu has some interesting vids that i left here they have some aspect of green to them and they have adopted AI ahead of others-- this is a nice little $3 stk. Why an analyst feels the need to change his price target 10 (EU version of cents) I have no idea. Check this math out-> 6.9Euro equals 8.17 United States Dollar!
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Would smart money take 20% of this stk before earnings without knowing they will beat. You can't predict the market's mood that day but... Confluent to Announce Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results on August 05, 2021 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 06, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ: CFLT), the platform for data in motion, today announced it will release financial results for its second quarter of 2021, which ended June 30, 2021, after the U.S. market close on Thursday, August 05, 2021.
The company was essentially spun-out of LinkedIn and its 3 cofounders had worked together at LinkedIn where they were instrumental in developing the technology called Kafka that is the foundation of what this company offers users.