Probably replaced most of the highly paid engineers and manufacturers with unskilled Musk fanboys for half the price...
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Passant Rabie
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Passant is a news reporter at Gizmodo, covering space, tech and all things in between.
Rockets are hard, and I imagine they especially want to be careful with a payload going to the Moon (even if it’s insured, it’s still time-consuming to replace).
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Which is worse, 100 large annoying satellites, or 42,000 small annoying satellites?
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Will the human race place its ability to share photos of spaghetti smeared toddlers above its knowledge of the universe? Only everyone knows for sure.
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Some of the best science goes unobserved by the general public, so it’s a very good thing that Passant and Giz at least remind us that it’s out there!
Your writing of these space articles is on point. Felt like I was reading something along the lines of Eric over at Ars. <3
o7 LightSail 2.
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Next stop, Kessler Syndrome!
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Starlink at least makes an effort to remain low visibility, such as tilting the solar panel away from earth, and surface coatings which reduce reflections. This one seems to have large bright white areas, and must likely keep that antenna array pointed at earth.
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So basically we’re at the “fuck astronomy” stage of commercial space exploitation.
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Dozens of reports, not booms. It’s not exactly a spike, but there’s only one boom as the “cone” of sound trailing the aircraft strikes any point along the ground, although in it’s flight path the aircraft might pass overhead more than once.
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“It’s not yet clear whether LOFTID performed as expected” Read more
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Glaze also cited the impact of covid-19 and the ongoing inflation crisis, saying NASA did not receive any additional funding to offset the financial effects of the past two years. “I just wanted to make a note that we’re accommodating a lower budget right now than we anticipated,” Glaze said. Read more
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Ok... you can go explore Venus... psyche... just kidding, let’s wait another three years.
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“The contaminated hand sanitizer lot was distributed nationwide through online purchases” Read more
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I KNEW that was a bad place for my methanol stash!
Unfortunate.
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