Rocket Launch in New Zealand Brings Quick, Cheap Space Access
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#2The years I spent in New Zealand painted a vivid picture of a society of doers. I think there’s something to the idea that this comes in part from being a landmass the size of Colorado, with not much more than 4 million people, with the freedom and requirements to maintain the infrastructure of being a sovereign nation.
Seeing a NZ rocket launch condures an image of a small group of doers dreaming big. Way to go NZ!
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#4I wish I could put software in one of those shoebox satellites.
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#5I wish I could put software in one of those shoebox satellites.
It’ll take some money, some talking (do you have a local university that builds satellites?), or, most likely, both, but there are ways and means of getting things into orbit.
See, for example:
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#6I wish I could put software in one of those shoebox satellites.
Our startup is working on way to allow easier software development in space. Stay in touch, and we will get this ability.
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#7I wish I could put software in one of those shoebox satellites.
in the not very far future it probably will be possible to buy hosting services on a platform that is a xen or kvm hypervisor in low earth orbit.
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#8I was about to say that launching so far from the equator sounds very fuel-inefficient, but it turns out that their launchpad's latitude (39 degrees south) is nearer the equator than Russia's primary launch site, the Baikonur Cosmodrome (45 degrees north). For reference, Cape Canaveral is 28 degrees north.
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#9I'm still chuckling that they called the rocket "It's Business Time".
I'm guessing partly a hat tip to SpaceX and the naming of their drone ships, but more so named after a song by the Flight of the Conchords.
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#10I'm still chuckling that they called the rocket "It's Business Time". I'm guessing partly a hat tip to SpaceX and the naming of their drone ships, but more so named after a song by the Flight of the Conchords.
They should have named it the Conchord