spaceflight, 11 months ago to random 📆 07 Jun 2023 #Astrolight and #ESA test portable 📱 ground station #laser #communication system. #Laser communications offer increased #bandwidth 📶 over radio. https://esoc.esa.int/content/astrolight-and-esa-test-innovative-portable-laser-communication-system Pictures : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marx%2BRex%2BMars%2BHQ.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MorseMachine.jpg
📆 07 Jun 2023 #Astrolight and #ESA test portable 📱 ground station #laser #communication system. #Laser communications offer increased #bandwidth 📶 over radio. https://esoc.esa.int/content/astrolight-and-esa-test-innovative-portable-laser-communication-system
Pictures : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marx%2BRex%2BMars%2BHQ.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MorseMachine.jpg
spaceflight, 11 months ago The first operational #optical #communication line arrived in 📆1792, covering #France 🇫🇷 with a network of 556 stations stretching a total distance of 4,800 km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_communication#Semaphore_line Picture : #NASA's #Mars #Telecommunications #Orbiter * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA07499.jpg successor : Key features #SolarElectric #IonDrive engines, broadband #LaserCommunication (optic communication) between #Earth and #Mars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Mars_Orbiter
The first operational #optical #communication line arrived in 📆1792, covering #France 🇫🇷 with a network of 556 stations stretching a total distance of 4,800 km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_communication#Semaphore_line
Picture : #NASA's #Mars #Telecommunications #Orbiter * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA07499.jpg
spaceflight, 1 year ago to random A #Quintillion looks like this : 1.000.000.000.000.000.000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers Do you assume anyone might be interested in #AsteroidMining ⚒️ ? 🤔 🤑 #SpaceIndustry #investment #probability Picture : :ccby: :cc_nd: https://www.statista.com/chart/8093/the-colossal-untapped-value-of-asteroids
A #Quintillion looks like this : 1.000.000.000.000.000.000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers
Do you assume anyone might be interested in #AsteroidMining ⚒️ ? 🤔 🤑
#SpaceIndustry #investment #probability
Picture : :ccby: :cc_nd: https://www.statista.com/chart/8093/the-colossal-untapped-value-of-asteroids
spaceflight, 1 year ago #ARRM The #Asteroid ☄️ Redirect Mission was intended to develop a #robotic #spacecraft to visit a large #NEA and collect a multi-ton boulder ⛰️ from its surface. It would then redirect the boulder into orbit around the #moon 🌙, where #astronauts 👨🚀 would have explored it and returned to #Earth with samples. #WhiteHouse #SpacePolicy Directive 1, issued 📆 Dec. 11, 2017*, ended the mission. But many of the central #technologies in development for that mission, such as #SolarElectric ☀️⚡ #propulsion, will continue https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/asteroid-redirect-robotic-mission-arrm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Donald_Trump#Space
#ARRM The #Asteroid ☄️ Redirect Mission was intended to develop a #robotic #spacecraft to visit a large #NEA and collect a multi-ton boulder ⛰️ from its surface. It would then redirect the boulder into orbit around the #moon 🌙, where #astronauts 👨🚀 would have explored it and returned to #Earth with samples. #WhiteHouse #SpacePolicy Directive 1, issued 📆 Dec. 11, 2017*, ended the mission. But many of the central #technologies in development for that mission, such as #SolarElectric ☀️⚡ #propulsion, will continue https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/asteroid-redirect-robotic-mission-arrm