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The good thing about NASA is that they always also give you the metric measurements (and sometimes, as a bonus, some real-world thing they're comparable to). To
by rob74 2y ago
The good thing about NASA is that they always also give you the metric measurements (and sometimes, as a bonus, some real-world thing they're comparable to). To quote https://blogs.nasa.gov/smallsatellites/2024/08/29/nasa-composite-booms-deploy-mission-sets-sail-in-space/ https://blogs.nasa.gov/smallsatellites/2024/08/29/nasa-compo...:
> From above, the sail will appear as a square, with an area of approximately 860 square feet (80 square meters) – about half the size of a tennis court.
Not bad for a device the size of a microwave...
- sans_souse 2y agoOk but how many school busses is that?
- croisillon 2y agoabout half an olympic swimming pool
- sobellian 2y agoI'm going to need that in smoot-manhattans per cubit.
- skykooler 2y agoAbout one medium-sized school bus long on each side.
- kbelder 2y agoOr just one square school bus.
- sholladay 2y agoThat is bigger than many city apartments.
- dylan604 2y agoit's one half of a JWST