Charlie Garcia @Astro_Chuck
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@AI_in_LEO Chippy response aside, If the ground customer is large enough, they get the power and it lets you fly a cheaper, simpler spacecraft. Beyond a certain point you can't do any better than just flying lower though. Conservation of Etendue will take its price.
Who are the best undergraduate led university satellite teams?
@AI_in_LEO I mean, that sure is a list of reasons the problem is harder than if they didn't exist. The satellites only have to be just good enough to be economically viable. Any particular one of those you think is first principles impossible?
@JetFlyerX @NASA Pegasus and Stargazer earned their retirement. New commercial vehicles carry the torch they lit.
Did you know that @NASA and Katalyst Space built a satellite in under a year that's going to get dropped from an airplane before a rocket sends it to space to rescue a telescope that's spiraling out of orbit while "No Time for Caution" plays?
@supr3me_lead3r I got to take an aerospace entrepreneurship class from David Thompson and it was *super cool* to hear the Orbital Sciences story first hand.
@NoGoodGodGames @NASA TARS, adjust the humor setting to 70%
You should probably be way more excited about how cool this is!
The people are safe. Pads can be rebuilt, boosters can be remade. @BlueOrigin stout hearts and clear eyes. There's a lot of launches left to build the future.
@JasonPremoMFG Every time I've seen that I think to myself "I should have left it in the lathe"
@HalenMattison If it is ever viable then being profitable funds the R&D + capex to get there, if not then it may be an anaerobic boondoggle till the public incentives change. I hope it works though!
@kegrocket @NileMcmillion shadow box your RBF
@RidingTheTiger1 @reflectorbital @bennbuilds Sauron literally created a dawnless day. Saruman summoned storms and darkness to impede the fellowship. Morgoth destroys the two trees. I'm 100% sure Tolkien would have had strong opinions about our modern world, but his stories still have truths for us now.
@RidingTheTiger1 @reflectorbital @bennbuilds The realms of men had industry, good men were both armed and armored. Círdan built great ships and a lot of them. This was not discussed in detail (I suspect because Tolkien didn't want to focus on it) but exist. Light on demand is absolutely a thing Tolkien did.
Meanwhile based propulsion engineers make the exhaust hot and fast.
@nightskypaws We've run a bunch of deployment tests! Repacking the satellite is a project, but we've confirmed all the actuators on E1 are free and functional, and deployment testing with test articles looks promising! Testing is the gold standard!
We started designing the first vehicle in July. I'm so proud of what this team has done. Satellite 2 soon and more on the way!
We’ve completed build on our 1st satellite and have a 2nd and 3rd on the way! Every component has been talked to. Once in space it will deploy a reflector as wide as a basketball court. The goal of the Eärendil program is to deliver full moon brightness to 6,000 acres.
Many of the "good guys" are also people who develop technology, architecture, and craft. Aulë, Celebrimbor, the architects of Númenor, and the wonder of Nargothrond all show creative works made for good. It is said that at the end of the world Fëanor will unmake the silmarils to rekindle the two trees redeeming the greatest craftsman of Arda. Tolkien wrote of the dangers of industry forgetting the people that underpin it. He wrote of the temptation of power. In letter 131 he says that the temptation to power of both magic and the machine is dangerous and that while the machine is more familiar to us in the world, it's surprising how close the two are. The name of the spacecraft is a story we care about and its mythology is a reminder about the duty of care and responsibility we owe the world.
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