Comment on NASA selects SpaceX to build deorbit vehicle for International Space Station

VisualBuilder4@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wish they would send it into space so it can orbit the sun forever instead of burning up.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good point, if they’re sending a rocket up there anyway, why not just push it away from earth rather than towards it? Is it because it’s in LEO and there’s a ton of other satellites farther out?

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    • Monstera@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Way too much dV to leave earth

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      • MartianSands@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s no need to leave earth, just lift it into a medium earth orbit. There are literally thousands of kilometres in between low earth orbit (where there are lots of communications, spy, navigation and weather satellites) and geosynchronous (where there are lots of communications satellites), and outside of those two there’s virtually nothing there

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  • philycheeze@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Much cooler (hotter?) but probably more expensive…

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A LaGrange point would be nice… lots of stuff there, could prove useful in a few decades…

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