@sundogplanets That is shocking, but I would use “would be” instead of “will be” for the million-satellite constellation. It may never happen.
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A journalist in Brazil asked me for a satellite light pollution map for São Paulo with SpaceX's awful million "AI data center" satellite plan. -
Can't find any info on the status of the TACHELES 6U CubeSat from Germany, deployed by Artemis II.@AkaSci Thanks, I knew one was Mars because one of the astronauts was talking during the eclipse and said one of the bright planets seemed to be orange or red. The Houston ground folks said "that is Mars, our future destination". I don't think the astronaut's comment was scripted but the ground "capcom" had that line ready.
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Can't find any info on the status of the TACHELES 6U CubeSat from Germany, deployed by Artemis II.@AkaSci What three planets are visible to the lower right of the Moon?
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It's no secret that I've been struggling, and my therapist said I need to find things to keep me busy, so I created the @cdnspace Artemis II dashboard.@chad @cdnspace This is excellent! The NASA AROW page does not even load on my iPhone. Yours looks good on a small screen. One of the space YouTube channels said that the TLI burn was only 300 m/s of delta-V, which seemed far too small. Your dashboard lists a far more reasonable delta-V over 3000 m/s.
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We really, really need to enshrine in law the idea that fines be proportional to the size of the entity being fined.@mhoye I think the EU now has some fines that are based on a percentage of a company’s gross worldwide revenue. Market cap might be tricky because it varies