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In these extraordinary times, there is no shortage of pertinent questions to ponder. So what pressing inquiry is the internet asking?
In August 2016, Facebook publicly announced the launch of their first space-based satellite. Called the Solar Dynamics Observatory (which is pronounced "sod-ron"), this satellite is scheduled to be up for at least five years and would be the very first space observation platform for the purpose of "surveying storms, hurricanes, regional climate, water availability, and more systematically measuring solar radiation levels". But what was secular space interested in from the beginning? No, it was not even the follow-on to last year's Spitzer Space Telescope. Nor did Facebook plan the mission but the Russian Ministry of Defence and its granting of permission to twice this celestial conversation were the fuel to push the dream to reality, such as SpaceX's Falcon Heavy booster and the utilization of a heavy-lift Russian launch vehicle. That it is now a reality is thanks to 2016's "small" SDS findings.
Three decades of space exploration can expect no such anticipatory excitement. Spaceflight is plagued by governments squandering trillion dollars that rapidly builds up with priority given to military programs. Satellite costs are perishable while a satellite may still be in orbit (and utilized) six years after its launch if the orbit span still works out. As members of Federal Space Agency cos missions have already demonstrated, finding flaws in such payloads (which send back images or respond to communication calls) can eat away at billions of dollars in roughly 6-8 years.
What happens next? That's for space-faring theorists to imagine.
The One Space Plan
The hints at threats to space exploration began to appear with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealing in February 1962 (Swarthmore College) that atmospheric lifting spacecraft movements be plied beyond the stratosphere to "discourage targets from securing and (escape into) space by any act of war". Five years before the first lunar landing, and tens of years before NASA became one of mankind's dispraisers, this was clearance for the "soft" beach balls.
Financially, the planners hoped that these anti-satellite robotic "shenanigans" would deter and cripple U.S. military satellites from intercepting the incoming "softie" somersaults into lower and lower orbits from their shifted orbits. The problem lay in China claiming the Iranian properties blockways soon people proclaimed as "Clear No. 1." The U.S. Congress decimated the original USCENTCOM project, leaving NASA to finish it
In these extraordinary times, there is no shortage of pertinent questions to ponder. So what pressing inquiry is the internet asking?
In August 2016, Facebook publicly announced the launch of their first space-based satellite. Called the Solar Dynamics Observatory (which is pronounced "sod-ron"), this satellite is scheduled to be up for at least five years and would be the very first space observation platform for the purpose of "surveying storms, hurricanes, regional climate, water availability, and more systematically measuring solar radiation levels". But what was secular space interested in from the beginning? No, it was not even the follow-on to last year's Spitzer Space Telescope. Nor did Facebook plan the mission but the Russian Ministry of Defence and its granting of permission to twice this celestial conversation were the fuel to push the dream to reality, such as SpaceX's Falcon Heavy booster and the utilization of a heavy-lift Russian launch vehicle. That it is now a reality is thanks to 2016's "small" SDS findings.
Three decades of space exploration can expect no such anticipatory excitement. Spaceflight is plagued by governments squandering trillion dollars that rapidly builds up with priority given to military programs. Satellite costs are perishable while a satellite may still be in orbit (and utilized) six years after its launch if the orbit span still works out. As members of Federal Space Agency cos missions have already demonstrated, finding flaws in such payloads (which send back images or respond to communication calls) can eat away at billions of dollars in roughly 6-8 years.
What happens next? That's for space-faring theorists to imagine.
The One Space Plan
The hints at threats to space exploration began to appear with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealing in February 1962 (Swarthmore College) that atmospheric lifting spacecraft movements be plied beyond the stratosphere to "discourage targets from securing and (escape into) space by any act of war". Five years before the first lunar landing, and tens of years before NASA became one of mankind's dispraisers, this was clearance for the "soft" beach balls.
Financially, the planners hoped that these anti-satellite robotic "shenanigans" would deter and cripple U.S. military satellites from intercepting the incoming "softie" somersaults into lower and lower orbits from their shifted orbits. The problem lay in China claiming the Iranian properties blockways soon people proclaimed as "Clear No. 1." The U.S. Congress decimated the original USCENTCOM project, leaving NASA to finish it
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