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   by apkessl1 7y ago

   In fact, that’s exactly what LightSail is using to control its attitude: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2016/20160418-lig...
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   by apkessl1 8y ago

   Statutory limit is actually 20 years, under 18 U.S.C. § 1341 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1341 In practice, most of the defendants would be likely to get under 5 years assuming this is their fir
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   by apkessl1 11y ago

   Good question. The vast majority of satellite communications today are conducted via geostationary orbit, 35,786 km above the earth. This is the distance at which a satellite orbiting around the equator moves with the same velocity as the s
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   SpaceX Dragon Mission to the ISS [Live at 6:05AM EST](spacex.com)

   2 points by apkessl1 12y ago|2 comments
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   Astronaut-Eye View of Orion Spacecraft Atmospheric Re-entry(youtube.com)

   4 points by apkessl1 12y ago|0 comments
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   by apkessl1 12y ago

   As a rocket combustion chamber grows larger, so does the chance of a destructive combustion instability. The Russian solution was to split that up into smaller chambers resulting in multiple nozzles. It was a practical solution to a challen