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I have the privilege of being the space startup founder. If you have any specific questions - I am happy to answer them. P.S. Going offline now, but send ques
by d_silin 6y ago
I have the privilege of being the space startup founder.
If you have any specific questions - I am happy to answer them.
P.S. Going offline now, but send questions anyway - I'll to reply them later.
- teruakohatu 6y agoWhat is your business model, your website does not make it clear. Do you plan on selling time on orbital computers?
- walrus01 6y agoIt's all fine and good until the orbital computer rehabilitates a disgraced ex-console jockey currently selling drugs in chiba city to retrieve the hardware crypto key required for a wintermute/neuromancer merger.
- 082349872349872 6y agoJust what was the colour of the sky above Chiba, anyway? I used to think a stormy grey turmoil, and now people seem to think it was a uniform brilliant blue.
- walrus01 6y agoI think Gibson was trying to describe an overcast gray with a lot of reflected city light on its underside. Sort of like VHF/UHF analog TV snow. He literally wrote Neuromancer on a typewriter, despite the subject matter, in the late 70s and early 80s Gibson lived a quite low tech lifestyle.
- vermilingua 6y agohttps://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163304/what-color-was-the-sky-above-the-port-in-neuromancer https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163304/what-color-...
- d_silin 6y agoYes, that's correct. We'll revamp the website to make business model more clear.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoCan I have the MicroNOVA placed into orbit for me? I can't seem to do that from your site.
- d_silin 6y agoIt is not likely to survive orbit deployment, unfortunately.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoLong term or short term? I don't need a century-level deployment, but I would like to see how long it would survive.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoIt would probably be cheaper and easier to test at a terrestrial cyclotron
- d_silin 6y agoFor some reason I can't reply to your comment below, so Iam answering here. - From purely hardware perspective, microNOVA has a nonzero chance of being operational for at least few minutes in space environment. - From rules & regulations point, launching it as a standalone cubesat is not possible. It is not compliant enough with cubesat specs (plastic frame, non-approved components, no radio licenses)
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoIf you load a comment and it's been less than 2 minutes sometimes you can't reply. I dig the actual reply, I actually considered whether it was radiation or just cooling of the components, but I didn't consider the regulations point. Edit: I was planning on making something accessible over AWS Ground Station so I was wondering if it was possible to get the payload into orbit in the first place. Thanks for being reachable and replying.
- waihtis 6y agoAs someone without much knowledge of use cases for orbital computing, what's the ELI5 use cases for this? Cheers!
- d_silin 6y agoThe strongest use case is in-space data analytics on Earth Observation data (camera images, simply said).
- jcims 6y agoOrbital compute presents a pretty good physical security model as well (X-37B notwithstanding). I've often thought it would be fun to build a smallsat providing crypto functions (signatures, certificates, message passing).
- mrtksn 6y agoIs there something drastically new besides the change in the economics? From layperson's perspective, SpaceX so far has done nothing new that hasn't been done 50 years ago. Yes, robotic rockets landing on robotic ships is cool but that's not core space tech that changes everything IMHO. It's nice that there's a new way to go to ISS but Soyuz was doing it since ever and very reliably. There was a buzz about how the new ship docks automatically but Soyuz was doing it too for decades AFAIK? What I am missing here? Is there a new frontier or is this simply a business opportunity to fill a gap?
- kuu 6y ago> From layperson's perspective, SpaceX so far has done nothing new that hasn't been done 50 years ago. https://bucket2.glanacion.com/anexos/fotos/85/2912485.gif https://bucket2.glanacion.com/anexos/fotos/85/2912485.gif In the last 50 years we did not have anything like this. Rocket re-utilization, now only for first stage but also second stage in the future is a game changer in the economics of launching a rocket.
- mrtksn 6y agoYes it’s cool and being cheaper is a nice thing but what does it enable that wasn’t possible before?
- zrkrlc 6y agoHow much would it cost to put something like microNOVA into orbit around Mars?
- d_silin 6y agoSeveral millions US dollars, at least. Interplanetary missions are expensive, even the small ones.