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Cant we just program all satellites to fly directly at the sun at their end of life? Seems ez enough and eventually it’ll just disintegrate or be Mercury and Venuses problemComment -
I dunno, that would mean pulling it out of orbit from around the sun.
Easier said than done from this distance. Would take a lot of fuel and nudging to keep it, it would shorten the usage life of that satellite around earth, probably a lot.
You would either need to have enough fuel to pull out of the sun's stable orbit (which is stronger gravity on us than the earth), or without all the fuel, you could calculate some sort of "fly by" route of the inner planets to get the velocity to break the orbital velocity.
That's kind of how the shot spacecraft out of the suns orbit.
It's effectively the same thing, only the other way.
Interesting to consider though. I think it's also why we don't just pack up our excess plastic and shit and send it to the sun. Instead it's become another literal continent in the Pacific ocean that we lovingly call the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch."
"Patch"...Un fukkin real.
I hope all is well Kraken!
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All is well my man, same back at ya!I dunno, that would mean pulling it out of orbit from around the sun.
Easier said than done from this distance. Would take a lot of fuel and nudging to keep it, it would shorten the usage life of that satellite around earth, probably a lot.
You would either need to have enough fuel to pull out of the sun's stable orbit (which is stronger gravity on us than the earth), or without all the fuel, you could calculate some sort of "fly by" route of the inner planets to get the velocity to break the orbital velocity.
That's kind of how the shot spacecraft out of the suns orbit.
It's effectively the same thing, only the other way.
Interesting to consider though. I think it's also why we don't just pack up our excess plastic and shit and send it to the sun. Instead it's become another literal continent in the Pacific ocean that we lovingly call the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch."
"Patch"...Un fukkin real.
I hope all is well Kraken!
I honestly don’t know anything about satellites and orbits, good explanation...
Interestingly, I took care of a gentleman in Oklahoma that wrote the book for NASA on re-entry trajectories back in the 60’s. He’s prolly long gone now as he was fairly sick and this was 10 years ago. He had some great stories about Neil and Buzz, the Apollo mission, the team that worked on it etc.... Said his very first day on the job he shows up, finds his supervisor and asks him “which books can I read to learn what I need to know”, supervisor said “Son, this is NASA, we don’t read books we write them” I always loved that answer.Comment -
fuel costs ? instead... let's just dump our trash into China and it'll mix right in nobody will bat an eyeI dunno, that would mean pulling it out of orbit from around the sun.
Easier said than done from this distance. Would take a lot of fuel and nudging to keep it, it would shorten the usage life of that satellite around earth, probably a lot.
You would either need to have enough fuel to pull out of the sun's stable orbit (which is stronger gravity on us than the earth), or without all the fuel, you could calculate some sort of "fly by" route of the inner planets to get the velocity to break the orbital velocity.
That's kind of how the shot spacecraft out of the suns orbit.
It's effectively the same thing, only the other way.
Interesting to consider though. I think it's also why we don't just pack up our excess plastic and shit and send it to the sun. Instead it's become another literal continent in the Pacific ocean that we lovingly call the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch."
"Patch"...Un fukkin real.
I hope all is well Kraken!
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Yeah, fuel costs make it prohibitivley expensive, even for a light satellite.
They would absolutely most likey plan a route to slingshot around the inner planets to speed up enough to catch up to the sun. Would take forever for a satellite and would still need that extra fuel to perform the move.Comment -
Too bad they couldn't launch. They did such a great job at their politically correct hiring of the people who filled the 5 hour lead up.Comment -
diggity tanko u guys really going 2 be there
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CWD yes, I want to try gator.
Never had it before.Comment -
send it !!Comment -
we doing this thing ???!!!!!!!!!??Comment -
T -20 minutes!
Let’s send these mother fukkers into outer space!!!
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JJ check in
We need your expertise in here
How much did Elon Musk pay for his hair transplant?
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Just watched it. Awesome. Back in space baby!Comment -
nothing blew up
back to horsesComment -
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what a great launch.Comment -
too bad we still don't have all that awesome technology from 50 years ago that let us leave low-earth orbit
oh wait i forgot nasa said they lost the technology and couldn't recreate it
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Sitting on the beach in Daytona. It was to cloudy to see it from here.Comment -
those space prikks come back with milky way virus
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Dumb quote
Can't write books without reading them
Can't do anything NASA does without intense readings of mathematical and scientific theory of those that came before them
All innovation stems from previous research
And today's research will be the blueprint for tomorrow's research
And so onCause Sleep is the Cousin of DeathComment -
aren't they planning on first going back to the moon... and eventually using the moon as a means to get to marsComment
