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Most cell phones tend to operate less than 400000km away from anything capable of receiving data, and do not require directional antennas to communicate most of their data
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Looks like two of the ridealongs are having comms troubles. Too bad, I was hoping to see new asteroid pics from Odin. https://spacenews.com/lunar-trailblazer-odin-spacecraft-suffering-problems-after-im-2-launch/
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Successful launch, and communications with the Athena lander has been confirmed
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Firefly Aerospace Discussion Thread
insert_name replied to Ultimate Steve's topic in Science & Spaceflight
https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/07/02/watch-firefly-to-launch-8-cubesats-for-nasa-on-5th-alpha-rocket/ -
Firefly Aerospace Discussion Thread
insert_name replied to Ultimate Steve's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Looks like a last second abort, did anyone hear if they still have more time on the launch window? -
Launch number two for PREFIRE, just had nominal transfer orbit insertion and kick stage separation. Update: payload deployment confimed
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totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
insert_name replied to Skylon's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Looks like DearMoon isnt happening anymore https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/japanese-billionaire-maezawa-dearmoon-mission-cancels-moon-flyby/ar-BB1nqRRm?ocid=BingNews -
If we are going with previous people that were the first Americans to do something space related that this vehicle is doing then wouldn't the proper name be New Musk?
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geoengineering with sterling engines
insert_name replied to farmerben's topic in Science & Spaceflight
He said he wanted to heat the atmosphere and use that to cool the ground, going off the spacecraft analogy, this would be like putting the radiator inside of the spacecraft. -
geoengineering with sterling engines
insert_name replied to farmerben's topic in Science & Spaceflight
This is thermodynamically equivalent to running a freezer with the door open, due to the second law of thermodynamics it will just generate more heat than doing nothing would -
Flying A Turbofan For Various Worlds...
insert_name replied to Spacescifi's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Maybe on a gas giant or other H2 atmosphere you could bring along oxidizer and source your fuel from the atmosphere, like the inverse of what is done on earth -
JAXA (& other Japanese) Launch and Discussion Thread
insert_name replied to tater's topic in Science & Spaceflight
SLIM woke up again https://phys.org/news/2024-03-japan-moon-probe-survives-lunar.html | Https canonical: https://phys.org/news/2024-03-japan-moon-probe-survives-lunar.html -
There's this which claims to be a fusion augmented electric plasma thruster https://interestingengineering.com/space/nuclear-fusion-powered-electric-propulsion-drive