Just see the DNEPR launch this summer. Little problem with some hydraulics and down comes the rocket.
But they do have a better percentage just because they do fly so many. Even if they loose one a year it's 1 out of 25. When the US looses 1 it's out of 15.
I was working at the ResNet at my Uni last winter/spring when this test was given. The Housing dept was tasked with selecting students from the freshman. They were quite serious about it and about getting a high return. They selected random students and then offered prize drawings for those that finished the assessment. We were tasked with setting up the website to redirect them to the test and to allow them to enter the drawing after taking the test.
Do the results surprise me? Hell no. Try working in ITS/ResNet/Any technical support at a university. So many idiots and some are even getting paid.
No, they claim it's satellite but admit they have no way of knowing if it's satellite or the iPod (or any other media player) based transmitters. Again I ask, why is NPR going after satellite in particular?
NPR has two channels on Sirius and I listen to them all the time during the morning commute.
I'm really curious to see why NPR has such an issue with satellite. Finding and reporting on issues is one thing, but to file FCC complaints? That's like ABC Nightly News investigating some cable or satellite provider and instead of just reporting their findings, they file FCC/legal proceedings against the provider.
Wrong, they landed in January of 2004. They were launched in the summer of 2003. Seeing how we have three months until the three year mark, that's not to far off.
Depends on the environment. I know many companies have areas that cell phones are not allowed within. Come to think of it, they're already enclosed in faraday cages. A lot of top secret sites do this as a minimum level of control.
Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS) Designed by Bob Bruninga http://eng.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs.html it uses a GPS, an encoding circuit and a radio. Reports position and speed onto a national frequency with digital repeaters and Internet gates. Most systems also report speed and some people have set up their digipeaters to send out alerts if someone goes past a set speed. In most metros and everywhere else all the data is logged and posted online. http://www.findu.com/ The system has been expanded to include weather reports and other data as users see fit on the network.
With this I have LIVE position and speed reports from the car. I don't have to worry about it getting "knocked loose" or something else "happening" to the unit, I've got it installed in the car nice and secure.
If you want to give them similar features to this other "new" gizmo, install a TinyTrak http://www.byonics.com/ and set it to only report when going over a set speed.
Exactly, my brother and I both have a unit in our cars and split the cost. Even though we're both in college, we pay for satellite radio instead of getting cable tv. The local radio stations are horrible, prepackaged morning shows from the East Coast and redundant music with no origninality. We can't imagine going back to FM only.
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You really can't do all that without going into space.
If you "design" it to go into space all the while knowing it won't, you really won't take all the steps necessary to ensure survivability. Whenever you prepare for major events, design reviews, system reviews, prelaunch reviews, you always find tons of things that need fixing or work. The reason? You're putting real money out to make it happen and you don't want to be the one responsible for the failure of the mission.
Put it into programming terms, how much work did you do for normal programming homework during college? Now how much work do you do before a review of your code/system/whatever before releasing it or publishing it?
I've got that experience now and it's not a "I designed a satellite for a class" but a "I designed a satellite and it's in orbit operating right now". All that, and I'm just now graduating.
actually most of the industry doesn't believe you can make a satellite this small useful. I saw many people tell us it was impossible to put a fully redundant 430Mhz transceiver and the complete CDH on a 4"x4" board. That's about the time we would hand the board to them and point to the other board with the antenna and power hooked up and transmitting at that time.
Also, almost every CubeSat runs on batteries that have never been space qualified or flow before. Most of the components are not "space qualified" because they don't want to radiation harden them. CubeSats are set to prove you don't need all that extra crap. Just design them well, design them to recover from events, and build them at a fraction of the cost of the specialty stuff.
You can't just say, "Ok guys, you've been studying in school and all know F=ma. Now make something that goes to the moon." You have to start small, train people in real world situations and grow on that. With this kind of project you get to go from initial team formation, to Preliminary design, to detailed design, to production, to integration and test, to operations all in a matter of a single college career. No one has ever had that chance or capability until now. Now you are bringing in engineers from all over the spectrum and getting them excited about space and a career they would have never considered before.
Once we have hundreds of these junk in LEO I'll be happy, because then those who built them will be getting bored with little satellites and looking forward to build something that goes beyond that.
If you go through the satellite's web sites you'll see many are flying fairly interesting payloads, I don't think any of them are just a beacon. Montana built their own Geiger counter and is going to record the radiation levels in orbit. God forbid someone put something in orbit you have no interest in.
Large satellite >1000kg
Medium sized satellite 500-1000kg
Mini satellite 100-500kg Small Satellites
Micro satellite 10-100kg
Nano satellite 1-10kg
Pico satellite 0.1-1kg
Femto satellite
Smart dust - one cubic millimeter
from the bottom of this article: http://www.pythom.com/news.php?id=1964
that's exactly it. With all the schools all over the place they need to make passes over each one. Plus it was where the launch was going. Secondary payloads don't get to make big decisions like where they go into orbit.
Exactly. In the US there is no higher law then those created by Congress. The President can sign as many treaties as he wants but they mean nothing until Congress passes something. Normally when the President signs a treaty someone introduces a bill to Congress to fulfill the treaty but there is no requirement that this happen or be passed.
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No no no, you got it all wrong. You're suppose to say "FP!"
Just see the DNEPR launch this summer. Little problem with some hydraulics and down comes the rocket.
But they do have a better percentage just because they do fly so many. Even if they loose one a year it's 1 out of 25. When the US looses 1 it's out of 15.
I was working at the ResNet at my Uni last winter/spring when this test was given. The Housing dept was tasked with selecting students from the freshman. They were quite serious about it and about getting a high return. They selected random students and then offered prize drawings for those that finished the assessment. We were tasked with setting up the website to redirect them to the test and to allow them to enter the drawing after taking the test.
Do the results surprise me? Hell no. Try working in ITS/ResNet/Any technical support at a university. So many idiots and some are even getting paid.
No, they claim it's satellite but admit they have no way of knowing if it's satellite or the iPod (or any other media player) based transmitters. Again I ask, why is NPR going after satellite in particular?
NPR has two channels on Sirius and I listen to them all the time during the morning commute.
I'm really curious to see why NPR has such an issue with satellite. Finding and reporting on issues is one thing, but to file FCC complaints? That's like ABC Nightly News investigating some cable or satellite provider and instead of just reporting their findings, they file FCC/legal proceedings against the provider.
someone using the term "kewl" is complaining about buzzwords?
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but the RIAA is going to claim they buy more music because of the ads they're decoying out now.
Wrong, they landed in January of 2004. They were launched in the summer of 2003. Seeing how we have three months until the three year mark, that's not to far off.
Only 2 million FF miles? Hot shit, I better get flying.
SS3 is suppose to be completely different. One thing is for sure, LEO. That's about all Rutan has said so far.
Especially because he's going to have the money for Bigelow.
actually we'll probably see it on http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ NASA's World Wind pretty quick.
Depends on the environment. I know many companies have areas that cell phones are not allowed within. Come to think of it, they're already enclosed in faraday cages. A lot of top secret sites do this as a minimum level of control.
Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS) Designed by Bob Bruninga http://eng.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs.html it uses a GPS, an encoding circuit and a radio. Reports position and speed onto a national frequency with digital repeaters and Internet gates. Most systems also report speed and some people have set up their digipeaters to send out alerts if someone goes past a set speed. In most metros and everywhere else all the data is logged and posted online. http://www.findu.com/ The system has been expanded to include weather reports and other data as users see fit on the network.
With this I have LIVE position and speed reports from the car. I don't have to worry about it getting "knocked loose" or something else "happening" to the unit, I've got it installed in the car nice and secure.
If you want to give them similar features to this other "new" gizmo, install a TinyTrak http://www.byonics.com/ and set it to only report when going over a set speed.
It's called the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) virus?
Lemme make sure the department of redundancy department knows this...
Exactly, my brother and I both have a unit in our cars and split the cost. Even though we're both in college, we pay for satellite radio instead of getting cable tv. The local radio stations are horrible, prepackaged morning shows from the East Coast and redundant music with no origninality. We can't imagine going back to FM only.
Done, definately needs more people.
If you make it I'm sure more then a few developers might buy it.
You really can't do all that without going into space.
If you "design" it to go into space all the while knowing it won't, you really won't take all the steps necessary to ensure survivability. Whenever you prepare for major events, design reviews, system reviews, prelaunch reviews, you always find tons of things that need fixing or work. The reason? You're putting real money out to make it happen and you don't want to be the one responsible for the failure of the mission.
Put it into programming terms, how much work did you do for normal programming homework during college? Now how much work do you do before a review of your code/system/whatever before releasing it or publishing it?
I've got that experience now and it's not a "I designed a satellite for a class" but a "I designed a satellite and it's in orbit operating right now". All that, and I'm just now graduating.
actually most of the industry doesn't believe you can make a satellite this small useful. I saw many people tell us it was impossible to put a fully redundant 430Mhz transceiver and the complete CDH on a 4"x4" board. That's about the time we would hand the board to them and point to the other board with the antenna and power hooked up and transmitting at that time.
Also, almost every CubeSat runs on batteries that have never been space qualified or flow before. Most of the components are not "space qualified" because they don't want to radiation harden them. CubeSats are set to prove you don't need all that extra crap. Just design them well, design them to recover from events, and build them at a fraction of the cost of the specialty stuff.
You can't just say, "Ok guys, you've been studying in school and all know F=ma. Now make something that goes to the moon." You have to start small, train people in real world situations and grow on that. With this kind of project you get to go from initial team formation, to Preliminary design, to detailed design, to production, to integration and test, to operations all in a matter of a single college career. No one has ever had that chance or capability until now. Now you are bringing in engineers from all over the spectrum and getting them excited about space and a career they would have never considered before.
Once we have hundreds of these junk in LEO I'll be happy, because then those who built them will be getting bored with little satellites and looking forward to build something that goes beyond that.
If you go through the satellite's web sites you'll see many are flying fairly interesting payloads, I don't think any of them are just a beacon. Montana built their own Geiger counter and is going to record the radiation levels in orbit. God forbid someone put something in orbit you have no interest in.
Large satellite >1000kg
Medium sized satellite 500-1000kg
Mini satellite 100-500kg Small Satellites
Micro satellite 10-100kg
Nano satellite 1-10kg
Pico satellite 0.1-1kg
Femto satellite Smart dust - one cubic millimeter
from the bottom of this article: http://www.pythom.com/news.php?id=1964
look for cubesat kit on google. They're kit is pretty decent for Highschool and other's without the production capabilities.
that's exactly it. With all the schools all over the place they need to make passes over each one. Plus it was where the launch was going. Secondary payloads don't get to make big decisions like where they go into orbit.
Exactly. In the US there is no higher law then those created by Congress. The President can sign as many treaties as he wants but they mean nothing until Congress passes something. Normally when the President signs a treaty someone introduces a bill to Congress to fulfill the treaty but there is no requirement that this happen or be passed.