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In fact, that’s exactly what LightSail is using to control its attitude: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2016/20160418-lig...

Statutory limit is actually 20 years, under 18 U.S.C. § 1341 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1341 In practice, most of the defendants would be likely to get under 5 year…

Good question. The vast majority of satellite communications today are conducted via geostationary orbit, 35,786 km above the earth. This is the distance at which a satellite orbit…

As a rocket combustion chamber grows larger, so does the chance of a destructive combustion instability. The Russian solution was to split that up into smaller chambers resulting i…