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CoCom regulations and GPS receivers for balloons and cubesats (2016)
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vinnyglennon
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Bounce Off the Atmosphere at Reentry? (2016)
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susam
3 months ago
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How does SpaceX transmit the video feed from the first and second stage cameras?
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hentrep
on March 8, 2025
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Why did Saturn V have fins?
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azeemba
on Jan 16, 2025
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Why are the walls of a spacecraft usually so thin?
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azeemba
on Dec 15, 2024
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Who has been the closest to/furthest from the Sun?
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bscphil
on March 16, 2024
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How much does the air on the International Space Station cost?
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2 points
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throwaway_08932
on Feb 27, 2024
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Why do space operations use "nominal" to mean "working correctly"?
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2 points
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tosh
on Feb 21, 2024
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Why Not Explore Cruithne?
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1 point
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omnibrain
on Feb 12, 2024
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How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work?
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442 points
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trashtensor
on Feb 3, 2024
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Is there still a legless phantom crew member on ISS?
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2 points
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taubek
on Dec 19, 2023
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What are the "crossing beams of light" in the Cassini images taken?
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1 point
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pyinstallwoes
on Oct 11, 2023
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What is the most popular programming language in space?
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1 point
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marcodiego
on April 29, 2023
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After SLS, what is the next rocket building project for NASA?
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2 points
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curling_grad
on Feb 27, 2023
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Propellantless Propulsion in Gravity Field
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2 points
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cesis
on Feb 7, 2023
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How much power does it need to send commands to Voyager satellites?
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4 points
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8K832d7tNmiQ
on Jan 27, 2023
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Lunar nuclear power system – how can hydrogen generated on Moon be liquefied?
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1 point
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graderjs
on Jan 16, 2023
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How might SpinLaunch spin something fast enough to launch it into orbit?
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1 point
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ZeljkoS
on Oct 6, 2022
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Why did NASA's JPL put a Morse code on the wheels of Curiosity? (2021)
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4 points
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Tomte
on Aug 9, 2022
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Why does the Unity spacecraft look transparent?
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1 point
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pyinstallwoes
on June 21, 2022
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Why did the engineers at NASA's JPL put a Morse code on the wheels of Curiosity?
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1 point
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Tomte
on Jan 10, 2022
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Why is the James Webb Space Telescope's data storage space so small?
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24 points
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soheilpro
on Dec 26, 2021
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What does the Sun-Earth-Moon system look like from the Sun-Earth L-2 point?
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9 points
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amichail
on Dec 25, 2021
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Aren't the mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope too unprotected? (2014)
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4 points
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zeristor
on Dec 25, 2021
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Has SpaceX chosen to drop the Transpiration cooling of Starship? If so, why?
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2 points
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firebaze
on Oct 31, 2021
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24 dimensional stacking, and receiving and decoding signals from the Voyagers
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7 points
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robin_reala
on July 9, 2021
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Rockets – What are the chances that a spacecraft is hit by space junk?
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1 point
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helsinkiandrew
on July 8, 2021
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How is the altitude of a satellite defined, as the Earth is not spherical?
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2 points
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belter
on June 5, 2021
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Unix Epoch in International Space Station
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1 point
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tosh
on May 30, 2021
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Why did the engineers at NASA's JPL put a Morse code on the wheels of Curiosity?
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1 point
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on April 29, 2021
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