21,000 satellites in Orbit? 46 years since 1969 = 1.25 satellites launched into orbit per day 365/ year HMMMMMMM????

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Are you sure you're not confusing whole satellites with pieces of debris?

Ssshhh don't wake em up

NOPE... there is 21,000 satellites in LEO

Thread: Car in parking lot windows rolled up on Texas summer day = 150º in 20 minutes.... ISS = _______º ??

Let me clear up one mystery for you. The pyramid blocks were poured concrete not cut stone.

date is wrong.

The space age began on October 4, 1957 with the launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1

According to the United States Space Surveillance Network, there are more than 21,000 objects larger than 10 cm orbiting the Earth. Just a small fraction of these are operational satellites. It’s estimated there are a further 500,000 bits and pieces between 1 and 10 cm in size.

About 6,600 satellites have been launched. The latest estimates are that 3,600 remain in orbit.[

MY BAD

imagine if they all fell down.

supposedly they burn up on reentry..... who knows?

And it is stupid to calculate one Start for each Rockets.

Many of this Satellites are really small, like a TV
and you can put a few of them in to one Rocketo!

I remember thinking back then,
what the heck is a Sputnik.
It sounded scary to a kid,
and it launched America into the Space Age.

Sorry, "One Start for one Satellite"!

OK NEW MATH UPDATE

58 years
6,600 satellites launched

113 per year... or roughly ONE ROCKET LAUNCH EVERY THREE DAYS??

yet Each rocket launch seem to make big news and gets delayed over an dover... but somehow we launched ONE EVERY THREE DAYS for the last 60 years ??

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i am no scientist... but i can do basic math

Look OP, if you had done some research you would not have made such a fool of you:

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an artificial object which has been intentionally placed into orbit. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon.

Yes, the moon is a satellite. Everything that orbits earth is a satellite. Go figure. If you threw a stone into orbit, you had created a satellite.

Furthermore, your assumptions all satellites require their own rocket reveals more dumbfoolery. (Is this actually a word? If not I just invented it)

For example nanosattelites start at 1 kg

The term "nanosatellite" or "nanosat" is applied to an artificial satellite with a wet mass between 1 and 10 kg

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

But let me guess, NASA shills are running wikipedia, right?

resident nasa shill has no evidence because he is a bot who lies.

Im just here creating conversations opening dialog on this boring tuesday morn' and have no pride to get in the way of a "dumb question"

I like thinking out loud and you don't see me defending these ideas on that hill.... my opinion is fluid and you can read my revisions and questions....

So now i ask, yes even if some are small and don't require their own rocket, its not like the ISS is rolling down th window and tossing one or two out into orbit???

So how do these "mice-sats" "micro-sats" get into orbit if not from a rocket ?

Trebuchet ? Barry Bonds and a corked bat ?

LOL no but seriously? it has to get up there somehow ?

You are a shill.

??

I am not assuming each satellite requires its OWN rocket.... however each satellite requires A ROCKET.... so math them for me please?

3,600 satellites.... since 1960

the common sense of op will never be understood by the nasa shills. How else are they going to get paid if they decide to follow common sense?

Turns out we really do launch a rocket into space very two days somewhere int he world ???

[link to www.thespacereview.com]

YET somehow we don't hear about it? And this weather sat that kept getting delayed made nation news for a week ??


I don't know what to believe ?? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

SPACE
LEO

the big lie... i am leaning towards

I could see the confusion. Its good OP was thinking about things that don't add up though. Pluto is not a planet but a toothpick and the ISS are both satellites.

There was a female astronaut who spilled a bag of space tools and said 'OOPS!' All those tools floating around at 20,000 mph are satellites.