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'Dead' is kind of harsh. We like to call it 'gone to make a crater on a nice farm in the country.'

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It’s bizarre to me that an American satellite potentially falling onto inhabited areas gets treated like it’s a coworker’s funeral, but a Chinese satellite doing the same gets treated like it’s a deadly act of war or something. Really makes you think.

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It's not Chinese satellites that make the Doom reports, It's the first stage of their Long March rockets. They launch them up there without any means of a controlled de-orbit.

They're almost 50,000lbs, this old US satellite is only 5,400 lbs. Big difference.

It’s also a satellite from almost forty years ago, versus a rocket stage launched in the past year. It also provided data for twenty years, instead of the fifteen minutes of utility that the rocket stage provided.

Edit: To add about the utility of the satellite: “That data helped shape the Montreal Protocol Agreement, an international agreement signed in 1987 by dozens of countries, that resulted in a dramatic decrease around the globe in the use of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) – chemicals once commonly used in aerosol sprays, refrigeration and air conditioners.”

No it's not. America will do everything in their power to prevent debris from landing on inhabited areas. China and Russia literally poison they're people with every launch and China doesn't give a fuck where it's debris falls. The difference is the US tries to prevent this where the other knowingly does things that will cause harm.

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Nice little show when it reenters. Saw the spacex burnup in PNW SE Wash, Very impressive.

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u/Lucas_7437 before making your comment did you ever think about what type of object is re entering earth? How about if it was a planned re entry? “REalY maKeS YoU thInK”

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Yes same goes for everything else and it's simply propaganda. America has the loudest media in the world.

Sure, but this is not a fair comparison.

Confirmed. I was hit by a 5,400 pound satellite and I’m fine, but my friend got hit with a 50,000 space object and she was vaporized.

The 5400 pound sattelite won't make it down to the ground.

it's not alone...

Star Traveller 2023 - Coming to a spooky cinema near you

>Dead NASA satellite returns to Earth after 38 years

ZOMBIE Satellites Attack Earth!

Seriously, who writes these corny headlines at CNN?

It bought the farm?

The Chinese rocket stages have massive engine bells that can survive reentry. This satellite may have a few objects that survive.

Satellites usually burn up almost entirely in the atmosphere depending on size and materials used. This will likely never make it to the surface

Because satellites this is a satellite from decades ago and the US actually has pretty good planned reentries/design for end of life that doesn’t endanger people Vs China still literally drops massive rocket stages on Earth without planning.

Every US rocket has a flight termination system that self destructs if it goes off course to protect the people below, and they’re all launched over the ocean. China just drops the stages on villages as part of its design.

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Clicked here thinking this was an r/nosleep with an image attached.

Im pretty sure since we are on Reddit OC thought the general leftist anti american/western/capitalist sentiment in the site as a whole, his comment would have received much karma and praise

Here is a picture someone caught of it. Pretty cool how it looks like a rocket taking off. https://i.imgur.com/L5Uanps.jpg

No it doesn't...these are calculated and predictable events.

I was lucky enough to witness that burn-up in NW WA! Coolest thing I’ve ever seen.

Well obviously it did if they were hit by one.

Ahh yes, when people didn't think global warming was a political issue. What refreshing times.

OK, I have a weird hill to die. This isn’t a complaint, but more a curiosity.

NASA claims all these satellites, telescopes, rovers are suppose to last 2 years and they end up lasting decades. How can agency so reliant on precision miss on life expectancy?

I get they’re missing on the right side of it and that’s 100% a positive, but still. If they said it should last 15 years and it last 17, I get it…but man they miss by a lot.

Things like life expectancy are minimums. As long as it exceeds the minimum, it 100% meets the requirements.

Yeah, I get that. This is such a minor “complaint” (not complaining) but it’s weird how much they miss by

It’s because they can claim “oh that sat will only be up for two years so we better get another one funded and up there quick!”

Nothing to do with how much they “miss” they just want money, which is how all American companies work. Spend it or lose it.

That actually makes a lot of sense. I get the under promise, over achieve aspect, but the funding part makes a lot of sense as well.

That sounds nice. I bet its shrapnel will have plenty of space to roam

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Because the Chinese will launch massive rockets the weight of a building up in space and leave them without any plans for their fall, whereas the US sends a satellite that weighs about the same as a truck and catches the thruster rocket in the ocean safely.

The satellite will most likely burn up on re-entry, leaving only tiny fragments if anything that touches the ground. The rocket will not, and will crash and leave a crater somewhere.

That's the difference.

Under promise. Over deliver.