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by tectonic 6y ago
Rapid Unplanned Return To Flight?
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by tectonic 6y ago
Thanks!
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by tectonic 6y ago
We just wrote a piece this morning in Orbital Index about the iteration speeds of SLS, New Glenn, and Starship. SpaceX is putting everyone else to shame. https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-03-03-Issue-106/#heavy
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Heavy Delays(orbitalindex.com)
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Apophis Passes the Earth on Friday(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 6y ago
If you're into this stuff, we write about it in Orbital Index pretty frequently: https://orbitalindex.com (Some of the paragraph I posted was excerpted from a recent issue.)
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by tectonic 6y ago
Nice! LeoLabs is doing some very cool stuff. They're working on four additional radar installations for tracking space debris. Their current installations can track objects down to about a 10 cm diameter, but with their new installatio
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by tectonic 6y ago
Best of luck to you! If you ever want us to interview you for Orbital Index, feel free to reach out to me.
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by tectonic 6y ago
Anyone here play BatMUD?
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Our closest neighbor, Alpha Centauri A, may have a planet in its habitable zone(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 6y ago
A super exciting and well-executed landing with years of practice ahead of time to make it look easy. Things I'm looking forward to: - Sample collection and caching for pickup by a future sample return mission - Flying an experimental
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by tectonic 6y ago
https://twitter.com/jccwrt/status/1362514739671298051 > UNOFFICIAL but it looks like Percy landed right on the edge of the Mafic Floor Unit, with older (probably sedimentary) rocks that were buried by it only a
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by tectonic 6y ago
Also, InSight's SEIS seismometer is a true marvel: "We have been able to detect, at about 10 hertz, displacement of the ground of the order of less than 5 picometers…which is a fraction of the size of an atom." — https:&#x2F
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by tectonic 6y ago
You can also watch an EDL visualization in your browser: https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/mars2020/#/home And read about how it will use Terrain Relative Navigation to find a safe landing spot: https://w
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by tectonic 6y ago
Check out NASA's Software Engineering Handbook: https://standards.nasa.gov/standard/nasa/nasa-hdbk-2203
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by tectonic 6y ago
Martian craters are typically named after towns around the world that have fewer than 100,000 residents to avoid political pressures.
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Tianwen Takes Another Step(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 6y ago
We recently wrote a piece about space warfare for Orbital Index: https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-12-02-Issue-93/#space-... One of the resources we linked to was this recent PDF ( https://aerospace.
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Show HN: Every week we write about astrophysics and astronomy papers(orbitalindex.com)
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Hackers attempt to remotely poison water supply(nytimes.com)
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by tectonic 6y ago
Where did I say that it was?
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by tectonic 6y ago
Project Kuiper is so far behind Starlink at this point that this kind of regulatory maneuvering is pretty laughable. (As compared to regulating the brightness of LEO satellites, which is very much needed. In this regard, allowing SpaceX to
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by tectonic 6y ago
Most of Jeff Lindsay's stuff is worth checking out. He also started dokku and coined the term webhook.
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by tectonic 6y ago
I use Huginn to consume and email me RSS feeds too.
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Transporter-1 carried aloft an illustrative cross-section of the space industry(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 6y ago
According to a LinkedIn page, monkey.org is "The international house of primates, founded in 1995, offering services to a diversity of denizens across the globe. Headquartered around the world, we bring the brains and the brawn to many
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Every satellite launched on SpaceX's Transporter-1(orbitalindex.com)
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Understanding Synthetic Aperture Radar(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 6y ago
This is why we test. (In this case, header tank helium pressurization and more thermal tiles.) At least they didn't hit SN10! Summary tomorrow in this week's Orbital Index ( https://orbitalindex.com ).
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by tectonic 6y ago
This sounds fascinating and fun.

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