The NewSpace Revolution is About to Bring us Tiny Space Telescopes we can all Control

One of the defining characteristics of the modern era of space exploration is the way the public and private aerospace companies (colloquially referred to as the NewSpace industry) and are taking part like never before. Thanks to cheaper launch services and the development of small satellites that can be built using off-the-shelf electronics (aka. CubeSats and microsats), universities and research institutions are also able to conduct research in space.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

The NewSpace Revolution is About to Bring us Tiny Space Telescopes we can all Control

One of the defining characteristics of the modern era of space exploration is the way the public and private aerospace companies (colloquially referred to as the NewSpace industry) and are taking part like never before. Thanks to cheaper launch services and the development of small satellites that can be built using off-the-shelf electronics (aka. CubeSats and microsats), universities and research institutions are also able to conduct research in space.

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Imagine if you had the free version loaded with ads and they were connected with haemorrhoids commercials and kept threatening to make you like at Uranus

Cymek said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

The NewSpace Revolution is About to Bring us Tiny Space Telescopes we can all Control

One of the defining characteristics of the modern era of space exploration is the way the public and private aerospace companies (colloquially referred to as the NewSpace industry) and are taking part like never before. Thanks to cheaper launch services and the development of small satellites that can be built using off-the-shelf electronics (aka. CubeSats and microsats), universities and research institutions are also able to conduct research in space.

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Imagine if you had the free version loaded with ads and they were connected with haemorrhoids commercials and kept threatening to make you like at Uranus

Great, now when the uni students ‘moon’ you, they really will moon you….

Cymek said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

The NewSpace Revolution is About to Bring us Tiny Space Telescopes we can all Control

One of the defining characteristics of the modern era of space exploration is the way the public and private aerospace companies (colloquially referred to as the NewSpace industry) and are taking part like never before. Thanks to cheaper launch services and the development of small satellites that can be built using off-the-shelf electronics (aka. CubeSats and microsats), universities and research institutions are also able to conduct research in space.

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Imagine if you had the free version loaded with ads and they were connected with haemorrhoids commercials and kept threatening to make you like at Uranus

Some people are into selfies of their butts which is a rather strange attraction to geometry while other people are “into volcanoes” on other solar system planets and moons like Ceres, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Earth’s Moon, Io, Saturn and millions of Exoplanets. Imagine looking at a volcano eruption on an exoplanet while millions of other people look at their butts. What a universe!

Tau.Neutrino said:

The NewSpace Revolution is About to Bring us Tiny Space Telescopes we can all Control

One of the defining characteristics of the modern era of space exploration is the way the public and private aerospace companies (colloquially referred to as the NewSpace industry) and are taking part like never before. Thanks to cheaper launch services and the development of small satellites that can be built using off-the-shelf electronics (aka. CubeSats and microsats), universities and research institutions are also able to conduct research in space.

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Just imagine the length of the scheduling queue.

It’s bad enough with telescopes now trying to get time on them. They tend to be be booked out a year in advance.

I think they really need a space array of telescopes something like ten thousand space telescopes.

Ten thousand or more.

Tau.Neutrino said:

I think they really need a space array of telescopes something like ten thousand space telescopes.

Ten thousand or more.

I think that might be prohibitively expensive.

dv said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

I think they really need a space array of telescopes something like ten thousand space telescopes.

Ten thousand or more.

I think that might be prohibitively expensive.

Yes, at the moment, maybe one day space telescopes can be 3D printed to reduce their cost.

I wonder if its possible to 3D print glass?

What size telescope would be ideal for everyday space gazing in space?

Slightly different topic but it is an app

I wonder if its possible to create an app that you point at a point of light in space (natural objects) and it could tell you when that light is from. Everything we look at in the sky is from the past so I wonder if you could be reasonably precise about when in the past. I imagine the closer the object the more precise

Cymek said:

Slightly different topic but it is an app

I wonder if its possible to create an app that you point at a point of light in space (natural objects) and it could tell you when that light is from. Everything we look at in the sky is from the past so I wonder if you could be reasonably precise about when in the past. I imagine the closer the object the more precise

That should be fairly straightforward; there are already apps that name the stars (including planets and non-star celestial bodies) you point your phone camera at, and we’ve got detailed lists of how far away most (all?) stars (etc) are, so tying the two together should be simple.

btm said:

Cymek said:

Slightly different topic but it is an app

I wonder if its possible to create an app that you point at a point of light in space (natural objects) and it could tell you when that light is from. Everything we look at in the sky is from the past so I wonder if you could be reasonably precise about when in the past. I imagine the closer the object the more precise

That should be fairly straightforward; there are already apps that name the stars (including planets and non-star celestial bodies) you point your phone camera at, and we’ve got detailed lists of how far away most (all?) stars (etc) are, so tying the two together should be simple.

That’s what I thought and you could have a link to events that occurred on that day/year on Earth (why I don’t know just because)

• That’s what I thought and you could have a link to events that occurred on that day/year on Earth (why I don’t know just because)

I don’t think that newspaper archives go back that far…

furious said:

• That’s what I thought and you could have a link to events that occurred on that day/year on Earth (why I don’t know just because)

I don’t think that newspaper archives go back that far…

Not for most objects but some