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    clarification: when I say My point is that isotopes do not instantaneously decay. I doubt RT got that part wrong so in order for background radiation to return to normal shortly after the isotopes would need to decay very quickly. But if they are quickly decaying isotopes it would defeat the point of a nuclear engine since you could only use it for awhile. It may be fission based.
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    exactly!
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    Never trust the Russian government with nuclear tech. NEVER it always goes boom... This does sound like a nuclear engine. I find this interesting though, why would an isotope based power source suddenly dissipate its energy? Are they trying to use fission or something? I'm not that familiar with nuclear engines. Further more why did they say "background" radiation spike? None of this would relate to backround radiation. This may just be a journalistic mistake but I doubt it.
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    F-14 Tomcat could do it. either way generally KSP needs a way to make parts rigid
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    Thanks @tater for the update
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    Posted for anyone who knows: How do I program a basic servo motor in python. I'm fine with using some variant of python in libraries or importing a module. Just tell me how to do that.
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    I mean if you have to pay me $100 dollars for a scientific experiment instead of launching them individually the company could put them all into one capsule then you do not need to do as much THUS driving up sales. If they are comm sats the launch provider could supply materials and an engineer to design said sat. If the materials and enginners labor are worth less than the final product then the business makes more profit
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    thanks I assume that you have no experience with Python Robotics?
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    If a Space company could launch for $100s for a small satellite then they would make sure that they can help people make their satlilllites to drive up sales.
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    I will look at the study but RTLS is already a ridiculous idea. If SpaceX used their brains they would land the rockets in Bermuda (or Cape Verde or Azores) and then do a second launch from the azores onto a droneship. (Im being slightly sarcastic) either way my point is that RTLS is not the only way to recover a rocket. If SpaceX made a large droneship and brought 10 rockets in at a time Sea landings would be more economical.
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    Sure but ask the question WHY is it like that? If you could launch a satellite for $100 would you? The only thing keeping you down is cost.
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    More like once every few years If you have a main plant for manufacturing parts and then a second plant for making rockets and a third for repairing them everything will be fine.
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    You can just make more boosters thus driving down cost and allowing to take more customers. The reduction in cost will increase demand since more people can buy the product. This allows for you to gain brand recongintion and to consumerize your company
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    recycling economies of scale
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    Right so from the coding end of things how do I fufill that principle and create a new var on the loop?
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    I am mentioning the fact that I do not know exactly how long the flight will be. I want the flight to last about 1-2 minutes but if it happens to hit a strong stream of air and gets carried along half way across the ocean I do not want it to stop logging data. My point is that I can only estimate how long the flight will last, it could last many times greater than that estimate hence the voyager analogy. My point was that I want it to stop logging data when I tell it to stop. This could be via code or radio communication etc. This was as long as I have enough storage on the SD card I can get store more stuff, you may say that I should max the storage at the SD max, but if I ever try to transmit the SD card data that would still not be a problem because I could just keep inserting new SD cards to record data. Fundamentally I have no idea how long it will take to come back down and I want as much data as possible. This is what I want to do. When the rocket is on the ground I turn of the data gathering system, if it over the ocean and it hits water after 1 month of going around the world I turn off the system (yes I realize this is preposterous just bear with me) while return_f_data = True #create new vars log_data()
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    I think they will cut funding for their space launching systems. They will let them manufacture and launch satellites but that is it. Perhaps ASSIST in Private Astronaut programs as well, there astronaut programs may get cut by 2030 though because the ISS will be gone by then and the private industry will have their own astronaut program. Again this is all dependent on SpaceX or someone else being able to give... NASA Would be turned into an advisory and support administration mainly. One other thing Should have said tremendously bigly, like the world has never seen before. Then you would have the trump aesthetic (No that is not a political statement mods)
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    Again though, this is a problem. Take the Voyager craft they still transmit and their life expectancy is over. I need it to run unless I say it should not.Im going to have an if statement so I can turn it off if I need too
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    That was quieter than I expected
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    Live
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    The limit of the system is the code. when the code stops running it stops logging. that is why it needs to be infinite, it is only supposed to run when the rest of the code runs. Each time the while loop runs it logs data. I have no idea how long the guidance computer will run because it depends on the flight of the rocket. I mean I COULD make it 99999999999999999999 long and make. It theoretically it would run forever but that is annoying for me and the computer.
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    Im referring to computer parts that are not bristiling with hundreds of communication prongs I was thinking more for an AI System but I suppose you have a point. Hence the SD card correct? What If I want the maximum hold capacity to be infinite? Each X seconds in my code I log data, so if I am at 5 altitude readings in I may be at 1 second. then I can take data from other parts of the rocket and see what was happening at one second. Also (if/when I get to it) I can have the computer review past flight data while in flight to make sure other parts of the rocket are fine on the overall and not second to second level. For example if an array has 1000 items and each value should not be greater than one. If the arrays value is greater than 2 we have a problem. It allows you to examine large amounts of data quickly, that is basically my idea. I could also have a computer read an SD card as another stores the data but that is long term again
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    This will only take one large PR campaign with the Internet for SpaceX to take that spot, I gtg I will continue the debate tomorrow. Need to be up in two hours for the Atlas Launch since I have tickets debatable
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    Ok but this supposes that they care about NASA. People support a space program BUT not nessicarily NASA
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    They will start asking why we even need NASA anymore if companies can do it
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