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Any particular reason you wouldnt live in the EU? Aside from the hassle of uplifting ones life and such.

Their website has a good few images: https://cavernautes.nxigestatio.org/10-aout.html

There are regulations around de-orbiting your spacecraft at end-of-life, and there are international agreements around weapons in space that refer to the generation of debris. I do…

As a spacecraft integration engineer, I assure you it is not.

In-space contactless theories also exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-beam_shepherd

Pah, good irish Whiskey doesn't need to add dirt to add flavour, leave that to the Scotch!

It will have been tested extensively on ground. They will have identified leaks that are unreported in the media and there are those that have been reported. I have no idea what we…

A certain leak rate is expected. Helium is a very small atom, and as such is used for leak testing of systems all the time. It is very good at finding gaps in a system. Obviously t…

Lived in a small town along the Jagst river for a while, which joins the Neckar at Heilbronn. You get Castle Fatigue fairly quickly with how many castles there are around there. It…

I have moved around a fair bit in the past decade, and for me the most effective movers I have used have been SendMyBag [1]. They are great for shipping luggage and other reasonabl…

I would also add that the 'New Space' scene is going to be much more willing to accept autonomous manufacturing methods. People like ESA are much much more resistant to change, and…

Space is very slow to change, and traditional harnessing is going anywhere for the time being. I cannot speak to the newer systems on the market like Starlink, their economies of s…

Apologies, yes the crimping standard specifically is here: https://ecss.nl/standard/ecss-q-st-70-26c-crimping-of-high-r...

18 gauge! Thats the big leagues. We rarely go that big, 22awg is big for us. I salute you sir.

If you have a fish scale, you can see what the retention force is fairly easy. Thats the primary method we use for calibration, albeit with a specific testing hardware.

The main brands I would see would be Glenair, Souriau, and ITT Canon. Once you are paying the the space quality hardware, its all much of a muchness really. Glenair would probably …

Crimping is essentially quite a low skill method of connecting wires, when compared to the high skill and experience to do it reliably with solder. I would have a lot of trust in t…

Hahaha oh yeah, plenty. Recently the Peregrine Lander had wiring issues that led to using the NASA payload to perform the landing. The Vega-C launcher was lost not long ago as two …

Havent used them much, but I cant see why they would need to be tinned.

The inspection is primarily visual, to ensure that the stands are well aligned in the crimp, with no protrusions. And to check there is no damage to the wire due to stripping or a …

Nordlock washers are the best, but they are expensive and a little space inefficient.

As you say, things shift around, promises get made, everything gets delayed and all of a sudden there is no margin left. Unfortunately AIT has to do all of the hardware work with n…

At undergraduate level I studied Physics and Astronomy, and then did a research MSc as an optical astronomer, which I hated and drove me away from Physics and Astronomy as a whole.…

As a spacecraft Assembly, Integration and Test (AIT) Engineer, one of my areas of expertise is harness manufacture and routing. So this naturally involves an awful lot of crimping.…

Oh hey! Congrats on the awesome mission!