Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab
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Images of Jupiter from the Juno probe:
North Pole at Minimum Emission Angle
The image is reprojected according to a preliminary geometrical camera model, cleaned from some of the camera artifacts, approximately illumination adjusted with a 3rd degree polynomial BRDF over the cosines of the incidence and emission angle on the basis of PJ50 images, linearized to radiometric values, white-balanced with linear factors (0.629;1.0;3.65) for (R;G;B) on the basis of inbound PJ63 JunoCam images, and displayed with gamma=2 with respect to the square root of radiometric values.
Resolution is 30 pixels per degrees in an equidistant cylindrical system centered to the camera at image stop time, with an axis parallel to Juno's spin axis. The rendered field of view is 60x180 degrees.
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No idea what Rocket Lab are up to here, but didn't they get some US military contracts?
I saw Peter Beck's heli (an Airbus) at my local airfield yesterday. One of the guys spoke to him and he was visiting the Sail GP facility that they purchased recently (it's just down the road from the airfield). Apparently some new fin components or something being designed / built there. Quite cool having all that on my doorstep, should see what jobs they have going...they might need a mail boy or something...
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@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
As for Rocket Lab, it's be spy satellites most likely, but often commercial flights don't want to share competitive advantage/details.
Yeah. It took around 10 weeks or something from the signed contract until the launch. That is usually 2 years apparently so quite some advantage!
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@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@BerniesCorner said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
When's Musk's green hydrogen car coming. Possible game changer for all.
Well Musk calls Fuel Cells "Fool Cells", so not very likely.
Once Tesla moves into tanks that might change...
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@nostrildamus but will it have lasers?
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@NTA said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@nostrildamus but will it have lasers?
water cannons, I want water cannons! That shoot acid!
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@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
Should get some real progress now on the number of flights now the lawfare drag should get lifted. Going to be an exciting year ahead.
Flight 6 in T-minus 7 days
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@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@Kirwan how do you harden a drone? Genuine question - I see drones as massive, but also not yet having drone defences going
have you seen the video going around that is supposedly a Ukrainian drone with a stick taped to the front tring to take down a russian one by flying the stick into the props?
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@Kiwiwomble said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@Kirwan how do you harden a drone? Genuine question - I see drones as massive, but also not yet having drone defences going
have you seen the video going around that is supposedly a Ukrainian drone with a stick taped to the front tring to take down a russian one by flying the stick into the props?
I was thinking of that one!
and the one taken down by a fisherman throwing a fish at it
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no idea how real it is but the one their trying to take down (and failing) doesnlt look like the kind you can buy at JB HI FI