Evolution of the price per kg of payload (LEO) for several space missions:

🇺🇸 Space Shuttle - $19.8k/kg
🇪🇺 Ariane 5 - $10.3k/kg
🇷🇺 Soyuz FG - $7.2k/kg
🇯🇵 H-IIB - $7.1k/kg
🇨🇳 LongMarch 3B - $5.8k/kg
🇮🇳 Polar Satellite - $3.9k/kg
SpaceX Falcon - $2.7k/kg
SpaceX Falcon 9 (reuse) - $1.9k/kg

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Tianwen-1 second apoapsis raise – Daniel Estévez

Lagrange Points And Why You Want To Get Stuck At Them

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Mars Express 20th anniversary livestream – Daniel Estévez

@ross Play #KerbalSpaceProgram for a while, you'll get a much better understanding of the (very counterintuitive) nature of #OrbitalDynamics :)

Oh, and how did they calculate things in the #1960s? While final trajectories were analyzed with (compute-intensive) #NBodySimulations, rough trajectories were created with "#PatchedConics", which basically sort of converts a trajectory into a #geometry problem.

NASA's #CAPSTONE mission has arrived at the #Moon, becoming the first #CubeSat to orbit the moon and the first spacecraft ever to occupy a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) - the same orbit that will be used by Gateway, the space station that will support the #Artemis Program: https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/13/capstone-arrives-to-orbit-at-the-moon/ #orbitaldynamics #space #nasa #satellites
CAPSTONE Arrives to Orbit at the Moon – Artemis

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<avec une voix de père noël agacé qui tient un ticul sur ses genoux> :

«Bon, j'comprends pu là...Quesses-tu veux pour Noël? Orbiter autour de L2 ou de L4-L5? Euh, non (osti qu'chu méta😏 ) Tu veux la souveraineté ou tu veux un bon gouvernement? Tu veux pas les deux?» #politique #orbitaldynamics