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10 questions linked to/from What are the orbital mechanical consideration behind hand-launched nanosatellites from the ISS?
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If you throw a baseball from the space station, will it return to you in 90 minutes?
Something I've learned playing Kerbal Space Program is that if you make a change in your orbit with a single, short maneuver, your new orbit will intersect your old one at the point where you made the ...
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How dangerous is tossing equipment off the ISS?
On 2023 June 22, during an ISS spacewalk, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin "tossed overboard" three no longer needed devices, "off the back of the space station in a direction that ...
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Why is there a need for getting rid of ISS trash using the empty ATV and similar vehicles
Why is trash from the ISS sent down in some of the cargo vehicles. Would it not make more sense to dump it overboard in the downward + retrograde direction (as described here) and use reusable cargo ...
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This ISS trash deployment looks more like 2 feet than 2 inches per second, was it too fast or are these articles incorrect?
Digital Trends' Watch a NASA astronaut jettison part of the ISS into space which was linked in says:
Writing in Air & Space last year about the process of jettisoning objects, veteran NASA ...
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What kinds of things have been tossed out of the ISS?
Cubesats are (ir-)regularly deployed at very low velocity from the ISS, and they don't usually have propulsion. This tells me that the delta-v is enough to guarantee to those in charge that their ...
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Was this large pieces of "space junk" just released from the ISS in the "nadir and retrograde" direction?
According to Space.com's 02-Feb-2018 article Cosmonauts Break Russian Spacewalk Record During Space Station Antenna Repair:
The cosmonauts spent the day replacing an electronics box for a high-gain ...
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Are the cubesats deployed from the ISS always directed "nadir and retrograde"?
@Tristan's answer to What are the orbital mechanical consideration behind hand-launched nanosatellites from the ISS? includes:
If you launch nadir and retrograde, you will put the object into a ...
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When ISS Launches Cubesats, which direction do they usually fire them?
I was listening to Houston We Have A Podcast and they mentioned that spare payload on ISS supply/crew runs frequently get filled with cubesats which get (more elegantly than the word suggests) tossed ...
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Would it be possible to de-orbit a small object by throwing it with human strength? [duplicate]
If an astronaut went on a spacewalk (say from the ISS), tethered him/herself to a relatively massive object in orbit around the earth (say the ISS), and threw a small object in the direction opposite ...
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What radar-trackable steel ball was thrown from the ISS before October 2015? [duplicate]
The question What kinds of things have been tossed out of the ISS? contains a now-rotted link to a YouTube video of a steel ball being thrown from the ISS for radar tracking tests. I'd sourced it from ...
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