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My second ever job in STEM was with an RF Lab analyzing orbital line of sight statistics to help plan ground station locations for LEO satellite constellations.
Downlink bandwidth was a huge bottleneck for Earth observation sats.
Here's a primer thread on sat comms🧵 https://t.co/LLwbbLbyYG
This document is so sad and infuriating. NASA once made the near impossible possible. It seems irreparably lost now. https://t.co/gvF9Gz37RE... See more
We’re excited to share the results of our first pharmaceutical process in microgravity today.
Our processing hardware performed flawlessly.
Our mission is to now enable cost-effective high-cadence access to enable next-generation therapeutics.
Our results and pre... See more
Varda Space Industriesx.com
Fascinating read. Voyager-2 almost lost contact.
Then NASA basically sent an over-the-air software patch to a 45-year-old OS in production mode, 12.4 billion miles away, running low on thermonuclear battery.
After lots of prayers, “we are so back”. This is some next-level extreme software en... See more
Eye in the Sky: The Story of the CORONA Spy Satellites (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight (Paperback))
The method of recovering the CORONA program's film canisters in the 1960s was absolutely insane. https://t.co/VSIZZlf1cc