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Say, for example, congress passes and the president signs a law that says that product sponsorships in videos need to be disclosed. If a US company (or a European, Australian, Japanese, etc) country violates that law, we're pretty sure that a judgement against them can change that behavior.
China? Not so much, given their history.
Now to see if they can solve the reentry problem.
It looks like Starlink is $17,000 for ten years of service, so even if you were to add a few thousand dollars for installation, there's a lot of overhead there.
It does strike me that a top-down approach seems more costly than a model that allows schools to get grants.
That's how much Richard Garriott (son of astronaut Owen Garriott, creator of the Ultima game series, and after that, private astronaut that spent 12 days at the ISS) spent to purchase the rights to Lunokhod 2 and the Luna 21 lander.
My generally feeling was it didn't work that well, mostly because the MAD stuff is very dense, more dense than you'd expect from painting in an art gallery. A lot of it is also very dependent on pop culture that has changed in the interim.
Probably the two best pieces were the direct parodies of the Rockwell paintings, exhibited next to the pieces they parodied.
The Rockwell museum also made an effort to exhibit some of Rockwell's most humorous pieces in some of the side galleries, which worked well here.
Pretty much this. Polaris Dawn is happening because Jared Isaacman wanted it to. And my point is that SpaceX has gotten the price down to the point where he was able to afford multiple trips.
Soyuz-U had 765 successes in 786 flights. (97.3%) Soyuz-FG had 69 successes in 70 flights (98.5%) Soyuz-2 has 160 successes in 166 flights (96.3%)
Falcon 9 has 362 successes in 365 flights. (99.1%). That includes the partial failure of the CRS-1 mission, which successfully delivered CRS-1 to the space station but released secondary payloads into a lower than expected orbit. It does't include the AMOS-6 fire, which would bring Falcon 9 down 98.9%.
Falcon 9 is more reliable than Soyuz.
Software freedom 0 is that you should be free to run the program as you wish, for any purpose.
If that means loading your system up with third-party crapware, that's on you, not them. That doesn't mean Microsoft shouldn't work on making it easy to recover a system, if they can, but preventing you from running software would make the cure worse that the disease.
It used to be possible to not have high-speed internet, and now high-speed Internet is available everywhere in the world that has an amenable government.
Right now, it's possible to be in a location where it's impossible to call for help. In a few years, when LTE-in-space is available and the 911 mandate applies to it, anyone with a charged phone will be able to get contact.
SpaceX has been working to mitigate how its satellites affect astronomy - see https://api.starlink.com/public-files/BrightnessMitigationBe... and https://new.nsf.gov/news/statement-nsf-astronomy-coordinatio... .
But fundamentally, to limit space to astronomy will be to limit the benefits it can give all mankind. a
Starliner/Atlas wouldn't be affected, and so ensure the US and our allies have access to the station without getting Russia involved.
Also runs QMK/Via, which means I can reprogram those buttons on device, rather than having to make the apps correspond to the keyboard.
Launching inflatable stations inside the cargo area of Starship seems to be a much better approach, as all the fitting-out can be done on Earth, so the station is immediately inhabitable.
(It wouldn't surprise me if they could shift between primary and backup computers this way as well.)
One thing that does have great backup time is the RAM, which IIRC is powered by a dedicated power line coming right off the RTGs.