Who does this
59Musk-ovites that want to take NASA's budget and out it in Elon Musk's pocket.
55Should all of NASA's budget go to SpaceX? Obviously not. But should they outsource their rocket development and launches to SpaceX, at least until the next competitive bid? Without question.
The Falcon 9 has already revolutionized earth observation and science projects with how cheap it has become to get science satellites into orbit, and Starship is an even crazier reduction in cost and expansion of capabilities. It will be able to lift 100 to 150 tons for $30M per launch, and will be able to launch 30+ times a year. SLS, NASA's traditionally designed and built rocket, will be able to lift 95 tons to orbit for $2200M per launch, and can only ever launch twice per year.
Do you know how crazy of a difference that is for NASA's science programs? For their exact same budget, they can either launch 100 tons of experiments once per year, or they can launch 100 tons of experiments every 5 days.
4This is the correct answer.
2Starship is coming in a lot cheaper than SLS and SlS had a lot of legacy projects already paid for.
The fact of the matter is the real brainwashed people here are the ones that think Elon Musks Spacex isn't a revolutionary company. People are talking about rocketry like they are experts but don't know anything about it.
Giving up on Shuttle and switching to Falcon 9 instead of developing something new was the best use of money Nasa could have done.
Just yea keep circle jerking how Musk is the worst person in every possible way, at least you're cool!
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NASA
30FROM FUCKING SPACE!
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400 km?
50The ISS orbits at an altitude between 360-440 km
The generally accepted "border" between space and earth is the Karman line which is only about 100km up
66But that's shorter than Texas! How hard can it be!
5Valid, but I hate your texas analogy.
2Texas is nearly 4,000 miles tall. We just hang out on the surface.
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ISS orbit is 408km.
3No, it currently is at an altitude of 426km (was at 423km when I started writing), the orbit isn't at a fixed altitude though, it varies, and the residual atmosphere causes drag which means every once in a while the orbit has to be adjusted.
11That is well within the range I posted, yes.
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400km is nothing, if you have/had satellite TV the signal comes from a geostationary orbit (35 786 km) and it has to get there first and if you're not exactly below the satellite it's even farther away. Streams from the ISS having low quality (do they actually have low quality?) is due to either bad cameras or cameras aging faster in space due to high energy particles hitting it.
41The ISS also moves relative to the receiver, whereas geostationary satellites don't.
25I feel like "moves relative" also understates just how fast it moves: ~19,000mph
11It's a trade-off, either you have to do tracking and compensate for doppler shift or you have to deal with really bad SNR.
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There was an unfortunate overwriting incident:
The Apollo 11 missing tapes were those that were recorded from Apollo 11's slow-scan television (SSTV) telecast in its raw format on telemetry data tape at the time of the first Moon landing in 1969 and subsequently lost.
26Meanwhile the perseverance rover sending back incredible quality footage of its landing
17I was going to say, forget 400km, try 8.5 light minutes lol
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NASA TV was actually one few things I recall being on the Mbone.
3Is 400 km a lot? 🤷♀️ I'm american....
Edit: thank yall, I was being cheeky
2I truly don’t mean this as an insult, but the second half of your post could apply to almost anything after a question mark it could be a new form of “that’s what she said”
You could be a trailblazer🤷♂️ But then I’m Irish…
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