• Question: What was your favorite thing so far

    Asked by 398spcm32 to James on 26 Feb 2018.
    • Photo: James Geary

      James Geary answered on 26 Feb 2018:

      I love to watch the spacecrafts that I have worked on reach LEOP (launch and Early Operations Phase) but my favorite of all of these was ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) Jules Verne .

      ATV was an automated spacecraft that would rendezvous with the ISS (International Space Station), dock and provide supplies to the astronauts on board. The space craft would then un dock and re enter Earth atmosphere and burn up to avoid leaving space debris in LEO (Low Earth Orbit).

      This is not a big problem in LEO following 60 years of launching spacecrafts into space we have left a lot of junk lying around that could collide and cause a cascade effect known and Kestler syndrome.

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