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Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by thebiglebrewski »

Communitivity wrote: post #8

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This could be the real-life version of Helios one day!

Yeah, it's a bummer that the majority of Space Software jobs are not remote friendly. You have to look really hard to find the ones that are. Some are because you have to actually physically be near the spacecraft to build and debug certain software or firmware but others are just because everyone else is doing that and it's harder for them to manage a small remote contingent.

Still, I hope that this can change in the future, the space industry misses out on a lot of good software talent because of it. Maybe with better visualization technologies like the Apple headset this'll be more possible.

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by grecy »

azinman2 wrote: post #79
spiderfarmer wrote: post #53

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Alaska: 134 per 100k, The Netherlands: 7.1 per 100k. Something is very wrong in the USA.

You’re assuming perfect statistics. I wouldn’t.

It's always incredible that "statistics aren't perfect" suddenly doesn't apply when we're talking about the biggest GDP or Military.

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

dylan604 wrote: post #108
sneak wrote: post #104

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If I owned them, I would get to use them. I don’t, so logically I must not. By this logic, there are huge amounts of land that I also “own” that guys with M16s (or, more accurately, M4s) will keep me from walking on if I try to go there. Half the year I live in southern Nevada, so this distinction has some direct practical consequences in my life. It’s deceptive. Government property is not owned by citizens, it is un…

You conveniently left out the part of licensing the time. You can license with the BLM for access to government control land. Ranchers do it all the time. Special events like Burning Man also do it. You just have to contact the correct agency to do it. But of course, it so much easier to make a know it all sarcastic filled internet rant than do anything approaching useful information to a conversation.

Do you not see how that just furthers the parent's point? If I have to license usage of something, I don't actually own it.

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by dylan604 »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #134
dylan604 wrote: post #108

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You conveniently left out the part of licensing the time. You can license with the BLM for access to government control land. Ranchers do it all the time. Special events like Burning Man also do it. You just have to contact the correct agency to do it. But of course, it so much easier to make a know it all sarcastic filled internet rant than do anything approaching useful information to a conversation.

Do you not see how that just furthers the parent's point? If I have to license usage of something, I don't actually own it.

I think we have a basic misunderstanding of private vs public ownership. When we all own it, you can't just do whatever you want like build a house, but withe proper permit, you can use it. If it was private, I could never do something with what you owned.

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by adastra22 »

Someone wrote: post #115
_just7_ wrote: post #103

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The simplest way to do it is probably just to have a high quality 360 camera, that way you mostly get around the problem of orientation

Yes, but even that isn’t simple, I think. They’d not want to land on top of it, so they’d have to push it out from the lander or have it propel itself away from the lander. If they push it out and it doesn’t have a way to stabilize itself, keeping the lens pointing upwards then will require tight control over that push. So, I guessed (see below) you’d need power to make the sat orient itself. However, I googled a bit…

Have two. One on each side. Doesn't matter if one ends up in the regolith.

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by adastra22 »

Izkata wrote: post #118
dspillett wrote: post #109

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If basic radio worked for talking between suits and the landing craft in '69, it surely shouldn't be a surprise that modern frequency-hopping, error corrected, wireless comms, with much more sensitive equipment would work well?

The walkie-talkie toys I had as a kid in the 90s had at least 10x the range of modern home wifi routers. Not to mention how far radio stations broadcast. I'm guessing that's the context they're working from.

That's because of different frequencies and power caps that are enforced by the FCC. If your WiFi broadcast with the same power, the frequency space would be unusable by your neighbors for their WiFi. The range of WiFi is very purposefully sabotaged to make it useful for more than just you.

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by FredPret »

pierat wrote: post #77
Communitivity wrote: post #8

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Every country has it's tradeoffs. Some have high tax and a good social net, some the opposite. Each of those have their advantages.

But for 40% income tax, you would expect a hell of a lot more than what you're describing. Ironically the government could dramatically improve matters by interfering in your private life less, probably saving you money in the process as well.

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by obelix150 »

NedF wrote: post #7

Landing in ~ 8 hours. "The Odysseus moon lander is aiming for a 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 GMT) lunar landing" https://www.space.com/intuitive-machines-odysseus-moon-landi...

The landing time has been updated to 1524 CST.

https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-1

There will be a live feed on the Intuitive Machines site above and mirrored on NASA TV+ here: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/intuitive-machines-1-l...

The coverage on both live feeds will begin around 1400 CST.

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by th0ma5 »

Someone wrote: post #90

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitive_Machines_Nova-C#Eagl... : “EagleCam to record lunar landing Just before landing, at approximately 30 m (98 ft) above the lunar surface, the Odysseus lander will eject the EagleCam camera-equipped CubeSat, which will drop onto the lunar surface near the lander, with an impact velocity of about 10 m/s (22 mph). From the surface the EagleCam will attempt to capture the first third…

Funny that the student project will be the first private landing followed by the commercial vehicle?
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