Photo: Royal Thai Navy

 

PHUKET: Officers from the Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command successfully recovered a metal sphere from the seabed off Phuket today (May 17) that has now been confirmed to be a discarded fuel tank for a rocket, satellite or other object heading for, or already in, orbit.

 

Vice Admiral Cherngchai Chomcherngpat, Commander of the Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command, explained to the press today that local fisherman first spotted the object in the shallows off ‘Koh Ael’ earlier this month.

 

“The Third Regional Operation Center of the Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Center [ThaiMECC3] was informed by local fishermen on May 1 that they found a suspicious object which looked like a bomb near Koh Ael,” he said.

 

Full Story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/space-junk-fuel-tank-safely-recovered-off-phuket-80041.php

 

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Wonder how many satellites have spherical metal fuel tanks ? And the Thais want to go into space !!! 

Looks like Sputnick 1 

10 minutes ago, Excel said:

Wonder how many satellites have spherical metal fuel tanks ? And the Thais want to go into space !!! 

Better tell that to this guy who travelled half way round the world to collect a fallen satellite fuel tank.  And NASA wants to go into space!!!

 

1 hour ago, Excel said:

Wonder how many satellites have spherical metal fuel tanks ? And the Thais want to go into space !!! 

Many.

Want to buy?

Internet is full of fallen tanks. Put on your hard hat ????

And it's not for Gasohol but hydrazine. Very poisonous.

https://www.space-propulsion.com/spacecraft-propulsion/hydrazine-tanks/index.html

It seems local fishermen are better then submarine. 

32 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Many.

Want to buy?

Internet is full of fallen tanks. Put on your hard hat ????

And it's not for Gasohol but hydrazine. Very poisonous.

https://www.space-propulsion.com/spacecraft-propulsion/hydrazine-tanks/index.html

Well I never.

4 hours ago, Excel said:

Wonder how many satellites have spherical metal fuel tanks ? And the Thais want to go into space !!! 

Satellites don't have fuel tanks, its the rockets that bring them in orbit have them.

3 hours ago, Albert Zweistein said:

Satellites don't have fuel tanks, its the rockets that bring them in orbit have them.

How do they reposition them without some kind of propellant (AKA fuel)?

 

I wonder how much is the refundable deposit?

 

30 minutes ago, ukrules said:

How do they reposition them without some kind of propellant (AKA fuel)?

 

Solar cell power.

14 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Looks like Sputnick 1 

Hope it wasn't a mine.

5 hours ago, ukrules said:

How do they reposition them without some kind of propellant (AKA fuel)?

 

 

9 hours ago, Albert Zweistein said:

Satellites don't have fuel tanks, its the rockets that bring them in orbit have them.

Some satellites do indeed have fuel tanks and multiple thrusters placed around the satellite.  The thrusters can be used to turn the satellite and to gently nudge it into a different orbit.  All satellites have a pre-planned limited life and are sent into orbit with enough stored fuel to last for that satellite's expected life.  Those satellites that are placed into a fixed orbit and are never intended to move into a different orbit often times still need to turn to allow them to "look" in a different direction, which is often done using one or more gyroscopes mounted inside the satellite.  Electric servos push against the gyro, which doesn't want to move, so the entire satellite moves around the gyro.

6 hours ago, Albert Zweistein said:

Solar cell power.

Solar powered propeller ????????

Mars has just sent their first spacecraft to Earth. Just wait for the lid to start unscrewing. They intend to take over the Thai Government and look for signs of intelligence. Their attempt is doomed to failure.

19 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Looks like Sputnick 1 

So that's what the Russian Covid vaccine looks like.  I think I'll give it a miss.

At least they can recycle it now into their Mars program. 

5 hours ago, Gandtee said:

Mars has just sent their first spacecraft to Earth. Just wait for the lid to start unscrewing. They intend to take over the Thai Government and look for signs of intelligence. Their attempt is doomed to failure.

 

According to H G Wells wasn't that on the 12th of August? It's a bit early.

Here I thought it was one of these.....hmmmm where is my mind today.

 

7 hours ago, ballpoint said:

So that's what the Russian Covid vaccine looks like.  I think I'll give it a miss.

It's Sputnik V so it's much better now.

3 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

According to H G Wells wasn't that on the 12th of August? It's a bit early.

He clearly wasn't as clever as he thought and forgot to account for the fact the last bit is downhill.

 

9 hours ago, Gandtee said:

Mars has just sent their first spacecraft to Earth. Just wait for the lid to start unscrewing. They intend to take over the Thai Government and look for signs of intelligence. Their attempt is doomed to failure.

Wouldn't it be ironic if aliens did attack Earth right now and were all wiped out by Covid?

55 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

Wouldn't it be ironic if aliens did attack Earth right now and were all wiped out by Covid?

Been reading The War of the Worlds  by H. G. Wells?

On 5/18/2021 at 1:06 AM, KhunBENQ said:

Many.

Want to buy?

Internet is full of fallen tanks. Put on your hard hat ????

And it's not for Gasohol but hydrazine. Very poisonous.

https://www.space-propulsion.com/spacecraft-propulsion/hydrazine-tanks/index.html

Maybe they can recycle this and use it on their moon mission.