#Orbital

Interesting questions, thank you. But there seems to be a misconception on what makes a FOBS.As the name says, it is a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, meaning it has to
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Ok... the P9-is-not-real-because-of-observational-bias story has made another comeback, this time as a re-analysis. Interesting stuff, but inconclusive. While no longer staying up at night to look for the damn thing
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Final orbital launch statistics for 2020.I summarized some of this in my latest article for @NASASpaceflight: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/12/year-review-mars-lunar-samples-crew-from-us-starlink/The China Aerospace Science and Techn
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An animation showing how rockets get to orbit, with details in the thread 1/(Animation at 10x real time) The dot on the LHS shows the position of the rocket. The
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Jupiter & Saturn crashing next week??? No! Cool fact: if it weren’t for Saturn —Jupiter would’ve continued its inward orbital dive to Sun & destroyed inner terrestrial planets (ie ).
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Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart, mission specialists on the Space Shuttle Challenger during STS-41-B, used nitrogen-propelled maneuvering units to perform the first untethered spacewalks #OTD in 1984.Images: NASAhttps://www.flickr.com/p
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In defense of secondhand space stations:https://www.wired.com/story/the-plan-to-turn-scrapped-rockets-into-space-stations/ Every commercial rocket brings its upper stage right to the cusp of orbital velocity. Then it burns up on a fall back
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The Borderlands universe is a post-apocalyptic setting where the apocalypse is capitalism. Pandora matches a lot of dystopian post-apocalyptic settings imagined for earth because it's a planet that has been
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New paper time, which means new movie time! In this paper with Matt Mould and Davide Gerosa and members of the @SXSProject, we confirm the existence of unstable aligned-spin binary
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As someone who practises astrology and is also a maths teacher, I would just like to say that when doing statistical research, the probability of a planet being in a
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HAM the chimpanzee became the first hominid in space #OTD in 1961, launched on a sub-orbital flight aboard Mercury-Redstone 2. His name was an acronym for Holloman Aerospace Medical Center
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Happy solstice! Today’s #GeoAdvent treat is especially for the day that’s in it. This is my (non physical geographer!) explanation of solstices. #LoveGeography A #solstice is a point in the
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as a reminder for whoever needs it right now, here's a list of some of the rejections I've received:- not even interviewed by Planet for an internship placement- rejected by
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Some background behind my last visit to Arecibo (Aug 2019) and the picture I already posted, but will post again because I love it so much. Incoming THREAD on PSR
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A thread of threads . As a repository of all threads/posts by me A thread on Bollywood Music from 1950s till 1990shttps://twitter.com/anupampom/status/1003927233575116801 A thread on genetic history of us Indians/featuring
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Ran a brief sim w/updated orbital elements: the precise moment of perihelion for Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE is tomorrow at 16:18 UT, 27.7 million miles from the Sun. Standing on
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