« previous next »
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Space harpoons!  (Read 849 times)

MillCreek

  • Skippy The Wonder Dog
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 20,017
  • APS Risk Manager
Space harpoons!
« on: June 25, 2014, 11:12:26 AM »
Report to moderator   Logged
_____________
Regards,
MillCreek
Snohomish County, WA  USA


Quote from: Angel Eyes on August 09, 2018, 01:56:15 AM
You are one lousy risk manager.

vaskidmark

  • National Anthem Snob
  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 12,799
  • WTF?
Re: Space harpoons!
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2014, 12:41:15 PM »
Call me Ishmael.

So something in a fairly stable orbit shoots out a harpoon that strikes something else is a (for the moment) fairly stable orbit of a different speed and angle.  Didn't Newton say something about what happens when some force acts on that fairly stable orbit?  IIRC he called it a "Nantucket sleigh ride".

Can we get a second satellite up there to shoot video of the harpooning?  I'd pay to see that - even if it were taped rather than live.

stay safe.
Report to moderator   Logged
If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.

Hey you kids!! Get off my lawn!!!

They keep making this eternal vigilance thing harder and harder.  Protecting the 2nd amendment is like playing PACMAN - there's no pause button so you can go to the bathroom.

TommyGunn

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 7,956
  • Stuck in full auto since birth.
Re: Space harpoons!
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2014, 12:51:10 PM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on June 25, 2014, 12:41:15 PM
Call me Ishmael.

So something in a fairly stable orbit shoots out a harpoon that strikes something else is a (for the moment) fairly stable orbit of a different speed and angle.  Didn't Newton say something about what happens when some force acts on that fairly stable orbit?  IIRC he called it a "Nantucket sleigh ride".

Can we get a second satellite up there to shoot video of the harpooning?  I'd pay to see that - even if it were taped rather than live.

stay safe.

Any resemblance to Richard Basehart?  [tinfoil]
Report to moderator   Logged
MOLON LABE   "Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed." ~~ Cicero

onions!

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1,188
  • Space for rent.
Re: Space harpoons!
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2014, 12:59:49 PM »
The idea of making chain shot in space seems...well...fine with me.

I'd hate to be the poor bastages in the ISS though.

About 1:23 in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUAWfAWfxAE
Report to moderator   Logged
jeff w

I like onions!

KD5NRH

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 10,926
  • I'm too sexy for you people.
Re: Space harpoons!
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2014, 01:09:26 PM »
Seems to me like the most logical way to do it would be to put a lot of harpoons on one vehicle, not worry overmuch about fine control except on the final deorbit, and pretty much make it a big game of Katamari Damacy meets Kerbal Space Program.
Report to moderator   Logged

Scout26

  • I'm a leaf on the wind.
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 25,997
  • I spent a week in that town one night....
Re: Space harpoons!
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2014, 05:06:59 PM »
And if the harpoon doesn't penetrate?  Hello space billiards !!
Report to moderator   Logged
Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.


Bring me my Broadsword and a clear understanding.
Get up to the roundhouse on the cliff-top standing.
Take women and children and bed them down.
Bless with a hard heart those that stand with me.
Bless the women and children who firm our hands.
Put our backs to the north wind.
Hold fast by the river.
Sweet memories to drive us on,
for the motherland.

bedlamite

  • Hold my beer and watch this!
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9,804
  • Ack! PLBTTPHBT!
Re: Space harpoons!
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2014, 07:23:03 PM »
I always figured something like a RPG would be better. Some pieces would fly out of orbit, some would burn up on re-entry.
Report to moderator   Logged
A plan is just a list of things that doesn't happen.
Is defenestration possible through the overton window?

MillCreek

  • Skippy The Wonder Dog
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 20,017
  • APS Risk Manager
Re: Space harpoons!
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2014, 07:35:43 PM »
Quote from: bedlamite on June 25, 2014, 07:23:03 PM
I always figured something like a RPG would be better. Some pieces would fly out of orbit, some would burn up on re-entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Report to moderator   Logged
_____________
Regards,
MillCreek
Snohomish County, WA  USA


Quote from: Angel Eyes on August 09, 2018, 01:56:15 AM
You are one lousy risk manager.

Harold Tuttle

  • Professor Chromedome
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 8,069
Re: Space harpoons!
« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2014, 08:54:20 PM »
Report to moderator   Logged
"The true mad scientist does not make public appearances! He does not wear the "Hello, my name is.." badge!
He strikes from below like a viper or on high like a penny dropped from the tallest building around!
He only has one purpose--Do bad things to good people! Mit science! What good is science if no one gets hurt?!"

RoadKingLarry

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 21,841
Re: Space harpoons!
« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2014, 08:58:04 PM »
Report to moderator   Logged
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

Harold Tuttle

  • Professor Chromedome
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 8,069
Re: Space harpoons!
« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2014, 09:17:17 PM »
Report to moderator   Logged
"The true mad scientist does not make public appearances! He does not wear the "Hello, my name is.." badge!
He strikes from below like a viper or on high like a penny dropped from the tallest building around!
He only has one purpose--Do bad things to good people! Mit science! What good is science if no one gets hurt?!"

MechAg94

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 33,843
Re: Space harpoons!
« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2014, 11:28:28 PM »
Wouldn't it be simpler to give the harpoon a small rocket to de-orbit the satellite?
Report to moderator   Logged
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”  ― Calvin Coolidge
Pages: [1]
« previous next »