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I'm slowly working on a spacecraft design webapp: https://vesperastro.com . Think PCPartPicker for spacecraft. You can build out and trade hardware in the master equipment list and…

I work on early stage spacecraft concepts, so I draft and edit spacecraft block diagrams often. Each and every time I'm frustrated by the "fiddliness" of tools like Powerpoint or V…

Appreciate it! Totally agree, your experience is what drove me to start building Vesper in the first place. Not only do you have to find the right hardware and manually scrape the …

Thanks! The goal is for it to be primarily an architecture tool, although right now it leans more towards SatSearch as I think that will get eyes faster and because there needs to …

I develop spacecraft architectures for work and the spacecraft design bible is Space Mission Engineering: The New SMAD [1]. While much of the information in SMAD can be generalized…

Very cool, glad to see interest in this space. How does this differ from SkyDweller?

In practice, considerable difficulty. Like you said LEO moves fast. You are talking 10 min in line of sight (LOS) depending on the orbit. So the handoff algorithms (and necessary n…

Lasercom has been demonstrated well on Earth but it still is a very nascent technology in the space domain. There are several challenges that lasercom faces. First, in order to ena…