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Walking dead rts russian site2/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Such a large piece of space junk from a satellite would be unlikely in reality, unless it was designed to survive reentry. ![]() The remains of a Soviet satellite in AMC's The Walking Dead. ![]() But Tselina-class satellites were launched throughout the late 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s, with the last to fly in the early 2000s. The appearance of "The Walking Dead" satellite resembles a type of old Soviet surveillance satellite known as a Tselina-R, which was used for electronic intelligence, McDowell said. That might just be a coincidence, though.Īccording to Russian spaceflight expert Anatoly Zak, who runs, Tselina-R launched in 1990 (before the end of the Soviet Union) and was designed to last about six months. "The almost-intact satellite found on the ground. Overall, not bad as a depiction," McDowell told in an email. is good, although it looks too high at that point to have audible sonic booms, I would guess. Our first question: How accurate is the fireball, sonic boom and crash, which leaves much of the satellite intact? who tracks satellites and space junk in Earth orbit. That got us wondering how accurate the satellite crash depiction was, so we reached out to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. ![]()
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