https://twiar.net North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine Tue, 10 Dec 2024 02:35:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://twiar.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-twiarlogo512px-32x32.jpg https://twiar.net 32 32 https://twiar.net/2024/11/07/via-hackaday-flirting-with-kessler-why-space-debris-physics-make-it-such-an-orbital-pain/ Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:33:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=25320 Picture in your mind a big parking lot with 131 million cars on it. Now...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/12/18/space-debris-expert-orbits-will-be-lost-and-people-will-die-later-this-decade/ Mon, 19 Dec 2022 03:01:02 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=13629 Up until about a decade ago, an average of 80 to 100 satellites per year...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/12/17/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1242/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 02:44:15 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=13636 Release Date: December 17, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/09/10/podcast-this-week-in-amateur-radio-edition-1228/ Sat, 10 Sep 2022 21:26:12 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=11788 Release Date: September 10, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week...]]> https://twiar.net/2022/09/10/us-satellites-in-low-earth-orbit-to-be-deorbited-in-5-years-report/ Sat, 10 Sep 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=11774 Defunct U.S. satellites in low Earth orbit will need to come down in five years,...]]> https://twiar.net/2021/11/20/via-the-arrl-russias-destruction-of-an-orbiting-satellite-raises-space-debris-concerns/ Sat, 20 Nov 2021 08:45:18 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=6094 Russia tested an anti-satellite weapon on November 15, destroying one of its own old and...]]> https://twiar.net/2020/10/16/via-the-arrl-arrl-comments-in-orbital-debris-mitigation-proceeding/ Fri, 16 Oct 2020 23:57:36 +0000 http://twiar.net/?p=1443 In comments to the FCC, ARRL targeted two specific areas of concern regarding a Further Notice...]]>