Kryten

The engines on the R-7 were as or more powerful than that of American contemporaries like Atlas or Thor; it needed more to carry larger soviet warheads. Don't forget RD-180 on Atlas and probably RD-181 or RD-193 on Antares. Large kerolox engines are definitely an area where the US is still very much behind.

The scenario is that the plants, due to needing to reach a minimum size before being harvested, and being nourished with water gathered from outside, produce excess O2. The life support system, to prevent excessively high oxygen levels while being unable to filter it out selectively, vents air and pumps in nitrogen. Nitrogen tank runs out on day 60, astros become deceased. Seems like it could pretty easily be solved by growing in smaller batches and fiddling with ECLSS parameters.

No, of course not. No harm could possibly come from temporarily blinding an airline pilot while they're trying to land.

Let me rephrase that; it'd take an impossibly large amount of fuel for any current launch vehicle. Besides, Eris or Haumea would be much more similar to Pluto than these smaller KBOs are likely to be-this gets a more varied science return.

They don't have a capsule. They took this project from NASA and have to work with what they've got, it must have seemed a good idea at the time. They already have a system of small satellites for technology and component testing (ORS), this'd be specifically for stuff they want to return. Bear in mind this isn't necessarily restricted to supporting USAF projects, they just manage the programme

Because that'd take a stupidly huge amount of fuel?

That's rich, coming from someone that doesn't even understand the difference between chaotic and unstable.

Addendum; it's landed. Not much publicity compared to the last two.

How do you make the scan?

More likely it's long-term exposure of prototype military satellite components. Security issues aside, the ISS also isn't very good for exposed payloads; you either have to use the limited area on Kibo's exposed pallet thing, or arrange full spacewalks to deploy and retrieve everything.

How is it 'not Apple's fault' that it's physically impossible to run new software on older hardware, even when it would be able to run?

The ISS is actually pretty bad for anything that's sensitive to vibration, due to the combination of constantly-running life-support plumbing and moving people. That's why Foton still exists.

That's literally what the Armstrong limit is. At that pressure the moisture in your lungs will boil off, and dry lungs simply will not work. They'd become one larger black hole. Probably not. People have designed instruments intended to survive hard impacts, but they top out at about 100m/s. Dead is dead. Brain probably isn't repairable after death, regardless of what other organs you can grow. Pretty hard. We make new elements pretty frequently, but they're not remotely stable. As an example, the most recent (Ununseptium) has a half-life of about 140 nanoseconds.

Youtube has it's own streaming service, which then automatically uploads as a VOD.

That information is proprietary.

Something like that. Weather-related, certainly.

Soyuz rockets and proton rockets are stockpiled near the launch site, so you might be able to get some of them working assuming you can restart the fuel production infrastructure (also near the launchsite). Neither will put a terribly large payload mars-ward, though.

Also the actual instruments, the ground stations, the data reception, and pretty much everything else except a few lenses and a frame. It's very likely they'll both stay on the ground.

As soon as possible, pretty much. They've ruled out an attempt today.

Yep, sorry. Should have checked a bit closer. I don't think you'e going to be able to do this, unless somebody's properly cracked iOS 6, the rest of the guides all seem to be pretty much the same thing.

Solar illumination isn't something you can shrug off. GSO sats aren't going to be built for long periods of eclipse, both in terms of power and thermal control.

The best you can do is upgrade iOS via jaibreaking. Here's a handy how-to. Ignore the stuff about illegality and warranty voiding, neither apply here or anywhere else in the EU.

We'll see when the NOTAMs emerge. It really doesn't feel like it'll be that long.

We have photos of the rocket at the pad, complete with upper composite and boosters. Apparently we might have launch before h 24th, though how much earlier I'm not certain.

JWST doesn't use helium, just a sun shield.