Re: [Marxism] Inter-imperialist rivalry leads to outer space pollution

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:02:04 -0500, Ruthless Critic of All that Exists wrote, 
quoting an NYT article: 

> It happened some 490 miles above northern Siberia, at around noon
> Eastern time. Two communications satellites  one Russian, one
> American  cracked up in silent destruction. In the aftermath,
> military radars on the ground tracked large amounts of debris going
> into higher and lower orbits. 

  The Russian satellite was already decommissioned, the US-American one 
belonged to the 64-strong fleet of Iridium communications satellites providing 
wireless telephony and data services around the globe. 

  The network was started in the 1980ies or early 1990 by Motorola, but went 
bankrupt in August 1999. The US military helped the successor company by 
contracting Iridium for their world-wide communications. 

  Iridium issued a press release assuring their customers that the destroyed 
satellite would not cut a deep hole in the Iridium network and could soon be 
replaced by one of their spare in-orbit satellites. 
> <http://iridium.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=885>

  Well, interimperialist rivalry is not yet so developed in space since the USA 
would certainly have a majority of satellites orbiting around us, with Russia 
coming near. 

   But sure, the problem is a common coordination of satellite movements, 
and a solution for dealing with the growing amount of debris circling the 
earth. 


Cheers, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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