While falling over themselves to support Ukraine, a space industry conference has removed the name of celebrated Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from its agenda.
agree, 100km is too low to even orbit since its still got considerable atmospheric drag, the lowest satellite orbit is about 167km by a japanese satellite and even they had quite a bit of drag
I see your MOOSE and raise you project Pluto, the nuclear ramjet terror project. At the time it was being developed they believed the thing would be so radioactive that it would kill anyone within several klicks of it's flight path. And it would have had a flight endurance time of weeks or months. This is in addition to carrying numerous nuclear weapon payloads. If you ever want proof that Americans are absolutely depraved psychopaths Pluto is a good one to cite. They only dropped the project because they thought the Soviets would respond in kind and they couldn't think of a way to defend against a flying hypersonic nuclear reactor.
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strikes me as a little too convenient that a term defined by an American "space lawyer" takes the achievement away
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Of course America uses an arbitrarily different measurement than the entire rest of the world. This fucking country.
agree, 100km is too low to even orbit since its still got considerable atmospheric drag, the lowest satellite orbit is about 167km by a japanese satellite and even they had quite a bit of drag
my brother was obsessed with early NASA space stuff, pretty wild stuff they came up with and pretty crazy pilots willing to test it
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I see your MOOSE and raise you project Pluto, the nuclear ramjet terror project. At the time it was being developed they believed the thing would be so radioactive that it would kill anyone within several klicks of it's flight path. And it would have had a flight endurance time of weeks or months. This is in addition to carrying numerous nuclear weapon payloads. If you ever want proof that Americans are absolutely depraved psychopaths Pluto is a good one to cite. They only dropped the project because they thought the Soviets would respond in kind and they couldn't think of a way to defend against a flying hypersonic nuclear reactor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
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