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LCS-1 – Oldest spacecraft still in use

• tdeck 10y ago
  Ran into this while I after reading about Project West Ford, which was also really interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford
• pttrsmrt 10y ago
  "[I]t has no power supply or fuel; it is merely a metal sphere." There's something beautiful about that.
• dandelany 10y ago
  More info + photo here: http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/lcs-1.htm http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/lcs-1.htm
  • tdeck 10y ago
    Lifetime: 30,000 years wow.
• photogrammetry 10y ago
  Can hardly believe LCS-1 is still in orbit, given how low its density is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LARES_(satellite) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LARES_(satellite) has a density of 15,833 kg/m^2, and is the densest orbiting object in the Solar System.