Dead Body In Space

A dead soviet satellite and a discarded chinese rocket body are speeding toward each other in space and could crash catastrophically on thursday south china morning post reported.
Dead body in space. A dead soviet satellite and a discarded chinese rocket body have a 10 chance of colliding thursday night according to satellite tracking. Now a dead body on earth would begin to decompose as the bacteria in the air and within the body began the long process of breaking down. Leolabs a company that uses radar to track satellites and debris in space said on tuesday night that it was monitoring a very high risk conjunction an. An illustration of a rocket body explosion in space.
If your body was mummified all biological processes would stop rather quickly so there would be no further breakdown of your body. As hadfield points out a corpse in space presents some major logistical problems. If you were not it would freeze. If you were near a source of heat your body would mummify.
If you do die in space your body will not decompose in the normal way since there is no oxygen.