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The Earth is a spaceship, and it has an incredible propulsion system: the Galaxy!
I do agree with you though, that it's worth spending some R&D time on exploring outside the spaceship.
Private company landing on the moon today
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> Not moving my family to Texas, Florida, or Alabama, for anything. Beautiful states, but I have a daughter. Are women not safe in these states? I'm not sure I'm picking up whatever you are implying.
They’re likely referring to the effects of the Dobbs ruling [1].
1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women%27s_H....
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#34Curious question: as a private company, how do you determine your lunar orbit parameters after a burn? Are they leveraging Earth/orbit-based radar? Or satellites around the moon? Or something else?
I don't understand the "as a private company" qualifier. The math is the same, and doesn't care if it's private/public.
But observations need powerful domestic telescopes. If you're NASA, you own and have access to them.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand the "as a private company" qualifier. The math is the same, and doesn't care if it's private/public.
But observations need powerful domestic telescopes. If you're NASA, you own and have access to them.
Do you mean optical telescopes? I would have thought they used earth based radar plus star tracking onboard to figure out where they are in orbit, but I don't know.
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> Not moving my family to Texas, Florida, or Alabama, for anything. Beautiful states, but I have a daughter. Are women not safe in these states? I'm not sure I'm picking up whatever you are implying.
Women die because they're not allowed to abort nonviable fetuses that would also likely kill them. Seems very unsafe, I wouldn't want to be a woman there.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand the "as a private company" qualifier. The math is the same, and doesn't care if it's private/public.
But observations need powerful domestic telescopes. If you're NASA, you own and have access to them.
No, as an American, you own them. NASA just administrates them for you. If you're a space faring private company, you contract out the various parts of the mission. You didn't build a rocket, you hired SpaceX. You didn't build the relay network, you licensed access time. You don't build a space observation platform, you license time to use them.
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> Not moving my family to Texas, Florida, or Alabama, for anything. Beautiful states, but I have a daughter. Are women not safe in these states? I'm not sure I'm picking up whatever you are implying.
Yeah, they are really antagonistic to women, there are strict anti-abortion laws that even include travel bans
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/13/abortion-travel-ban-...
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#40Curious question: as a private company, how do you determine your lunar orbit parameters after a burn? Are they leveraging Earth/orbit-based radar? Or satellites around the moon? Or something else?
I don't understand the "as a private company" qualifier. The math is the same, and doesn't care if it's private/public.
I'm not the person you replied to, but I assume they meant something like "as a non space agency". Ie how are they tracking the lander? How are they sending and receiving telemetry? What resources did they use for mission planning and site selection?
Perhaps they've built their own comms system for example - maybe even a multi-site one that enables continuous contact - or maybe they're using NASA/ESA/JAXA assets. It would be interesting to know.
I'm not aware of any commercial providers for lunar communications.