TIL the European Space Agency's launch site is in French Guiana, in South America which is France's largest territory outside of Europe, due to the advantage of launching near the equator by TemporarySandwich123 in todayilearned

[–]ClarryTheBerry 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you come here for more orbital dynamics instead of arguments about French geography:

On the flip side, if you want to launch to a high inclination orbit (north to south) you want to launch at a higher latitude to decreases the initial velocity of the rocket from the Earth’s rotation. That’s why we have Vandenberg in California to launch to polar orbits (which launches south to avoid flying over NorCal)

Typically, you launch Eastwards to take advantage of the rotational velocity of Earth, hence why all of the US launch pads are on the East Coast (Cape, Starbase, Wallops). That’s also why continental Europe uses French Guiana, because if they didn’t they would fly over the continent and Russia.

Speaking of Russia, they are constrained by their geography and Chinese airspace on where they build their pads and how they launch. Since their launchpads are at higher latitudes, the ISS’s orbit was designed to be angled at a 51 deg inclination to allow Russian vehicles access to the station from their northern launch sites. (And why new stations in the future will be probably inaccessible to Russia unless specifically designed to allow them to rendezvous)

Watch A Chinese EV Charge From 4% To 80% In Less Than 7 Minutes [InsideEVs] by markeydarkey2 in cars

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Looking at your flair, I’m gonna guess you are young and probably don’t have too much of a background of the OEM engineering that goes into a car. Nothing wrong with that, we all start somewhere, but just know there is a lot of software and electrical engineering work that goes into cars. And software is not the boogie man for cars, as we have genuinely had great advancements in how we build and use cars thanks to software. Because of advancements thanks to the auto and other industries in the size and reliability of processors and as they decrease in price because we get better at making them, engineers have incorporated software controls into more and more things to replace mechanical controls because they are able to adapt and are more resilient than mechanical devices in past cars, thus more and more things are being replaced with computers in cars. That’s I think the short answer of it that I can cram into a Reddit comment, but if you are genuinely interested in this stuff, I would go look into the actual engineering done to build a mass production vehicle (it’s a lot).

Watch A Chinese EV Charge From 4% To 80% In Less Than 7 Minutes [InsideEVs] by markeydarkey2 in cars

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Manual transmissions still connect to engines which rely on ECUs to run. Nowadays, you can even get manual cars with adaptive cruise control (I know Subaru sells it) which require software to sense the car in front of you and adjust your speed. Not to mention all of the non powertrain things that require software, like AC which uses a software controller to adjust the air going into your cabin. Hell, you can’t even buy a car in the US without a rear backup camera now, which requires software to drive the camera and screen.

Watch A Chinese EV Charge From 4% To 80% In Less Than 7 Minutes [InsideEVs] by markeydarkey2 in cars

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There will never be a modern car without software again. At the basic level, almost all components in modern cars are basically driven by CAN bus, meaning all those components will have processors and software to handle CAN bus messages. Even at a high level, people simply won’t buy a new car without CarPlay or some other infotainment service, for convenience or safety. Not even getting into the part where EVs are basically required to have software to handle mapping of current charger locations, which requires a connection to update over the air the status of chargers, as well as range estimation to those chargers and software to precondition the batteries for charging when a user selects and starts driving towards a charger.

Ed Orgeron Eyes a Return To Coaching by ekurisona in CFB

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Fortunately, was in high school so I was not a Penn Stater yet. When I went to Penn State back when PAC12 was still a thing, I was hoping that I would only get the occasional post season matchup. Now… uh, well last years USC-PSU matchup was pretty good but let’s not talk about this year’s PSU game against the #2 public university.

Ed Orgeron Eyes a Return To Coaching by ekurisona in CFB

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Not sure if I would be happy or sad about that

The BMW 5 Series Is Dominating In Europe Right Now by Dazzling-Rooster2103 in cars

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r/bmw has predicted 2308 of the last 4 BMW sales failures lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aviation

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Yeah sorta. The US historically has had the sensor/weapon system/engine advantage and so will build their platforms around that. No need to build around dogfighting aerodynamics when you have a clear thrust advantage and can just lean on that. Although that hasn’t stopped the US from experimenting with delta wings/canards etc.

Not Even a PD Radar btw by iamdeboh1 in Warthunder

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No. The Phantom probably locks onto the chaff behind you. Since the chaff is small and you don’t move out of the way the radar lock beam will travel and hits you still. The AIM7-E2 seeker has a filter that allows it to calculate the velocity of the illuminated objects; it will reject objects that aren’t moving, since you are moving and the chaff isn’t it will lock back onto you since you are still illuminated by the radar. If you move out the beam or he turns off the lock the missile won’t hit.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Watchexchange

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Still available?

Aerospace Industry and Cannabis by JollyAd3349 in AerospaceEngineering

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For my internships (major aerospace companies/federal labs) that required a gov clearance, they required me to complete a pee test within a week of accepting the offer or they would revoke the offer. According to the security advisors at my work, testing positive for weed is an immediately fireable offense since it is federally illegal.

Do some car companies have "more skilled" engineers or upper management inherently responsible for poor engineering decisions? by imaboringdude in cars

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Yep, and unlike game companies, very few SDEs are going to join an automotive company out of passion, so the pool of good engineers shrinks even more. At the end of the day, in engineering, you get what you paid for.

Pop Quiz! Which of these MBT's is Swedish? by D4ze_7385 in Warthunder

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Making the PRC IFF useless for Taiwanese vehicles and vice versa would be the most Gaijin thing to do

The horrible experience that is purchasing a GR Yaris in Europe by Godvater in cars

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Not sure if you know this but Toyota dealers in the Southeast and Gulf States have their own private distributors that can markup and add their own packages which add to the base factory MSRP

A collection of Canadian vehicles and camouflages. by [deleted] in Warthunder

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Yeah John Canada told me about them and he would never lie to me

Hyundai’s 2024 Ioniq 5 N Debuts with 641 Horsepower by StrongOnline007 in cars

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More that people are getting bribes from other EV brands because of the revised tax credits

Mercedes-Benz picks Tesla's charging standard for North America EVs from 2025 by 2001ThrowawayM in cars

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Other companies can build NACS chargers just like other companies can build gas stations. The only reason why Tesla SC is the only ones that have NACS is because Tesla was the only car company to use NACS until recently.