marsokod

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   by marsokod 8y ago

   The goal of the experiment is to test the harpoon itself. You could have a moving target but then it creates a constraint on tracking a non cooperative target and orientating your harpoon accordingly, which is quite a feat in itself. Also,
2. 152.▲
   by marsokod 8y ago

   Yes, though depending on the part we are talking about it can take up to a couple of years. The mission has been designed to avoid creating small untrackable debris and everything is below the ISS. Fun fact, as all the missions deployed fro
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   by marsokod 8y ago

   One of the problem with NASA (and other companies/agencies of the sort) is that projects take a very long time, at least 10 years and usually 20 years. You cannot fire the guy who officially did the estimate at the beginning: he is not
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   by marsokod 8y ago

   I developed an archive system for our spacecraft TM/TC using HDF5 with blosc-lz compression for speed reasons (and I plan to move to Zstd in the future). One of the main issue I have seen in the industry is the difficulty to upgrade th
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   by marsokod 9y ago

   You can also check out jirafeau, quite light and easy to install: https://gitlab.com/mojo42/Jirafeau and demo site at https://jirafeau.net