Space, train and computer enjoyer. Serious games developer part-time, full-time MSc student studying space science and engineering.
Posts in English, maybe sometimes en français
| website | https://ktyl.dev |
| pronouns | they/them |
| location | London, UK |
As age-verification bullshit becomes more common, I am determined to simply not participate in any service or video game that requires it. The day I see the prompt, is the day I leave.
Maybe the government’s hope is that I stop participating in society, but I assure you that I will not. I’ll find or build alternatives, and refuse to comply with bad law.
I hope you will, too.
And as a silver lining, maybe the weird internet we end up creating as a result will suck less than the current one.
Eclipses seen from Earth are used to study the Sun, but only for a few minutes every few years.
With Proba-3, artificial eclipses can be created lasting 6 hours every 19.6 hours!
Other spacecraft carry occulters and coronagraphs, e.g, the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). It uses a occulter 0.7 m away that covers 2x the diameter of the Sun, to deal with stray light caused by diffraction.
Proba-3's disk, 150 m away, allows study within 1.1x radii.
Oh hey cool, an op-ed I wrote is now published!
TLDR: we need *fewer* satellites, each with *longer* operational lifetimes. Engineers: that's your challenge.
Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they're fireballs of pollution — and what doesn't burn up hits the ground.
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ESA (unofficial)
Prof. Sam Lawler