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by marsokod 8y ago
The problem is not that Ireland is a country using its taxes more efficiently than another. The problem is that one country can offer a much lower rate that is only viable for them if companies make their entire EU business as if it was hap
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You need to push them in a correct and somewhat precise way so you need to grab the debris somehow before applying the push.
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by marsokod 8y ago
As of 2018, the US GDP is 7.34x the one of France, not 10x. And in 2019, the US population is 4.91x bigger that France population, leading to a GDP per capita being 1.50x higher, not 2x. You cannot round numbers at 1 significant digit and u
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by marsokod 8y ago
You would still need a delta-V to agglomerate multiple debris. Depending on the context, it may be cheaper to just de-orbit them. We're a long way from recycling stuff in orbit. We've not even started manufacturing anything worthy
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by marsokod 8y ago
This harpoon is designed to catch big debris. The target used for this demonstration is a honeycomb panel typical of bigger satellites.
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That's what is being assessed with this mission. If creating a few debris with he harpoon allows you to de-orbit the whole debris, which would have generated a certain amount of small debris over time, then it can be a win if the forme
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by marsokod 8y ago
I can see plenty of issues for the users if they just change http to https. All the installs in a professional network where the use of a proxy changes the certificate would have trouble updating. So now it is changing changing http to http
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by marsokod 8y ago
It does not affect the ESA membership, and does not prevent UK companies to launch from French Guyana. However, shipping may become a bit more complex and costly, and procurement will be thougher, especially in the first months.
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by marsokod 8y ago
It is even simpler than that: you've got a computer for the platform, and another one for the payload. You send commands to the platform computer over the TT&C frequency at a few kbps. You can also update the platform OBC as well,
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AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites(aws.amazon.com)
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by marsokod 8y ago
That is not what he said though. He said there would be demand for gas well into the 2040s, and since most (all?) these bans only concern new sales, it will take ~20 years after the bans to get rid of a majority of the ICEs. The oil indus
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by marsokod 8y ago
USB-C has been designed so that the male part is less resistant than the female part. This way, the connector on the device will see less stress and should last longer. Obviously they won't be last indefinitely, especially for a connec
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by marsokod 8y ago
You can use a lot of missiles to destroy any spacecraft easily, while creating a big mess. But this is not really true for the deorbiting part: satellites are not planned for high velocity impact. So either you have a low velocity impact bu
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by marsokod 8y ago
EU membership played a key role in this project though. The consortium would not have had the same funding from the European Commission if the UK was outside EU.
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by marsokod 8y ago
In the early plans the harpoon was launched at a moving target. But in addition to the complexity and the risk associated with that, this prevented having a close-up look at the target after the operation. A harpoon for debris removal is on
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by marsokod 8y ago
I thought that the ISP were providing that service as part of the package. Given they do a lot of IP traffic alteration (acknowledging TCP packets at the gateway level instead of letting the client doing it), this is not much.
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by marsokod 8y ago
Yes, and to add to that a vast majority of this 11% is grown at quite a distance from the continent: Of the total banana volume marketed in Europe, which amounted to 6,122,898 tonnes, 11.3% is of EU origin, with the Canary Islands accountin
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by marsokod 8y ago
Water is the space fuel of the future. Well, at least the space oil of the future - if you start mining asteroid and comets, water is one of the best component you can get: good for any life around, quite a good solvent if you need one, and
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by marsokod 8y ago
Windows does not seem to be aimed at power users anymore, unless they are in a big company environment. You can manage which updates are sent, and when, if you have a Windows server distributing the updates. But that is overkill for small c
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by marsokod 8y ago
The worst part is that there is a setting for it (at least on the pro version). However, even with it selected I see an automatic reboot every three or four months. And that is by applying updates when I happen to work on it. And there is n
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by marsokod 8y ago
In government contracts in the aerospace and defence, the semantic distinction blurs a little bit. Government contracts are often inflated on purpose so that the work can leak towards other projects. Every country does that.
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by marsokod 8y ago
Hopefully false, and you need to increase that number to at least 20, more likely 30 to pay for the investment. That is very the problem lies - the risk. Looking at the spaceflight calendar for the rest of the year, there are 6 flights wher
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by marsokod 8y ago
Oh yes there are enough of them. But to compete you need fair rules and open access to your competitors market, and that is not the case currently. What they are asking for is only the same protections as the US companies currently enjoy.
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Yup, a mistake done in the 80s with Ariane 5 architecture, that we are still paying. Smaller scale means slower changes and this is being partially addressed with Ariane 6 and Vega C. Similar issue with the use of solid propulsion, mainly u
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by marsokod 8y ago
Yes, Europe wants their own launchers anyway as the access to US launches is still a hazardous endeavour for critical payloads. And the recent moves of the US international politics are not going in the right direction. As long as there is
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by marsokod 8y ago
The Gripen is not Swedish? Competition works when the market is open. But the space market is far from being open. Even building a satellite without including an ITAR or EAR part was politically impossible a few years ago for an EU company.
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by marsokod 8y ago
I believe the people behind peertube know about that. That is why Peertube is so much on federation with ActivityPub. If done properly this would allow anyone with an account on a website using ActivityPub (like Mastodon) to interact with t
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by marsokod 8y ago
Agreed, if one could take into account all the subsidies, I am sure we would be at similar levels. The commercial cargo contract was on par with the ATV program, but the prospect is much bigger, with better financial stability. And where sh
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by marsokod 8y ago
ESA has much less money than NASA and the DoD, and is free to chose a launcher from another country as well. Are the European space companies subsidized by ESA and the other European space agencies? Yes. Is it much different from the subsid
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To me this is a major reason why the reusable launchers were not developed in Europe. The concept was being studied but never gained traction. One of the reason might have been vanity but if you look at it with the view point of a CEO from

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