dave_blob

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   by dave_blob 7y ago

   As we're in a closed energy loop we're going to have to address this, sooner rather than later. Every starry eyed AI/ML piece has me thinking, yes but where's the power going to come from? And where's the power on t
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   by dave_blob 7y ago

   That's the same SpaceX that has launched 240 visible objects into orbit in the last year? More than doubling the number of visible man made objects (~200 till the start of the SpaceX Starlink project). And with fcc approval for another
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   by dave_blob 7y ago

   Yes, just looked it up. I was (partially) wrong about the un-synced frequency though. The synchro's for the docking radar ran from a different power circuit than the AGC, and whilst they were frequency locked they weren't in phase
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   by dave_blob 7y ago

   The real fun with the AGC on landing happened on Apollo 14, with a flipped bit in the abort landing flag. Percussive maintenance temporarily flipped the bit back, giving enough time for ground control to develop a hack. Didn't they ju