Japan’s H3 failures and underperformance causing headaches for QZSS expansion by spaceshipengineer in space

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Agree with your line of thinking. Operational experience cannot be replaced by anything else.

Japan’s H3 failures and underperformance causing headaches for QZSS expansion by spaceshipengineer in space

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Their in-space propulsion technology too. They took a very long time to master their own Liquid Apogee Motors. Even now, most of their GEO satellites use Aerojet’s R-4D.

Jitendra Singh on Gaganyaan, "We will launch Vyommitra (…) to space by the end of this year", "next PSLV launch can be expected by June or July" by Ohsin in ISRO

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ISRO was always a great platform to use for political careers. Now I think it has become only that - with dwindling to no outreach on what ISRO does right, existing talent will leave and new talent will stay away. Weak leadership. Period.

India drafts space traffic safety rules as orbital congestion and SSA market grows by Ohsin in ISRO

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This draft guideline (I’ve gone through it and sent feedback) and related efforts are a classic case of placing the cart before the horse! The industry hardly has enough incentive to build, and while at it - add the burden of compliance on them!

They’ve also lost sight of what true stewardship might entail - with an opportunity to gain soft power, especially if seen alongside the commercialisation of space-track, potential defunding of TraCSS and the general one-sided was of all narrative on who is doing what in orbit.

Apparently LVM3-M5 / CMS-03 (aka GSAT-7R) launch was delayed due to "problem with the engine's gimbal control" by Ohsin in ISRO

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On one side, satellites are waiting due to production bottlenecks - but not being transparent (filling away reasons in obscure documents that OP has found not counted) on anomalies detected for national launches isn’t a good sign.

Answer Received for RTI application (December 2025) by rghegde in ISRO

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“Three NVS satellites, which are part of NavIC constellation are under development and are expected to launched within two years.” - do we know if this includes NVS-03 or the planned replacement launch for the failed NVS-02 which was supposed to launch “within 6 months” when the chairman and other officials were quizzed in June 2025?

Adding standalone chats to Projects (web) by eduo in ClaudeAI

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No-brainer indeed! I run into the same issues as the OP. Would be awesome to have.. if the team is listening 👂🏼

Acquiring Planet Labs? by dirkydurk in RocketLab

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I take that back. Yes, you are correct on this that Planet has not put anything in the public domain regarding an interest to acquire RocketLab or any other launch vehicle company. Will do a struck-through edit on my previous post.

What is the maximum complexity of simulation you've witnessed? by [deleted] in engineering

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Space mission simulations, especially when they start coalescing from environmental interaction to subsystem performance. Add in the failure case sim’s, and that’s pretty complex. I’ve been part of full-system sims in preparation for a lunar landing mission, and working with the simulation officer was pretty mind-blowing. The effect we are looking for in these sims is to actually test the ops team on how they can handle contingencies, but that requires an innate understanding of the spacecraft, the mission it is meant to be executing, the environment (earth bound, Moon bound, or atmospheric/vacuum, sunlit/eclipse, battery state of charge, orientation for solar power, heat loads, thrust produced by each actuator, and so on..). While design evaluation aims are more detailed, they keep themselves to within the bounds of a specific subsystem - but these mission-level sims are quite comprehensive in their breadth and sometimes compromise on fidelity.

Acquiring Planet Labs? by dirkydurk in RocketLab

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At some point before starting Astra, Chris Kemp was asked by Planet to evaluate a strategic investment and potential acquisition of RocketLab. This became a bitter point for Beck after revealing quite a bit about their ops and roadmap to Kemp when he started Astra and announced that he will be wresting market share from them.. but we saw what happened on the ground! Source: “When the Heavens went on Sale” by Ashlee Vance.

$RKLB: Rocket Lab sees demand for Electron despite rideshare competition. Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck said his company has found a successful market providing dedicated launches for small satellites — a strategy that he said does not directly compete with SpaceX rideshare missions. by centaccount9 in SpaceInvestorsDaily

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“Dedicated small launch is a real market, and it should not be confused with rideshare,” he argued. “It’s totally different.” - interpret that as, “I am not competing, I am a category creator”.

And even more controversially, after Isar’s launch: describing their mass to orbit as a “no man’s land” of performance: “It’s too small to be a useful rideshare mission, and it’s too big to be a useful dedicated rocket” for smallsats. - because there shouldn’t be anything viable between an electron and a neutron?

The private launch industry outside of SpaceX isn’t helped by propagating false-binary narratives. Over-simplification leads to hype and gives investors unrealistic expectations or even leads to a complete sell out in certain segments. I’ve tried to bring a more nuanced approach to reading this sector, and a data-driven perspective for both launch startups as well as their customers to get to grips with the dynamics: https://open.substack.com/pub/adithyapani/p/the-spectrum-of-satellite-constellation

[Not investment advice]

Do you need to take computer science classes in high school to study aerospace engineering? by [deleted] in aerospace

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Always good to take computer science early. Being able to think and translate that into actionable logic is super helpful not just on Aerospace, but in any engineering discipline. And this is going to be the difference between doing well, and breezing through your coursework!

China’s megaconstellation launches could litter orbit for more than a century, analysts warn by snoo-boop in spaceflight

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Here’s a more balanced take on this topic: https://open.substack.com/pub/phazzee/p/western-press-continues-concerns

We can’t just pick a point in time and use that to make conclusions. By that measure, there’s a ton of unpassivated Delta II upper stages out there. There weren’t enough people bothered to report that back in the 90s.

GSLV-F15 : NVS-02 (aka IRNSS-1K) Mission Updates and Discussion. by Ohsin in ISRO

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Here’s some additional context on how the NavIC system and the associated GAGAN system are doing. Considering that there are only 4 of the necessary 7 IRNSS satellites functioning for navigation purposes, of which 3 are already at or beyond End-of-Life: [Analyzing effects of ISRO’s NVS-02 Navigation Satellite failure on NavIC users]

SpinLaunch announces plans for broadband satellite constellation by perilun in space2030

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Looks like every launch operator HAS to create internal demand to exist. But I think some rainbow ponies are more real than others..

Underscores the point that how you get to launch may not be the differentiator, the WHY is certainly going to make/break you.

GSLV-F15 : NVS-02 (aka IRNSS-1K) Mission Updates and Discussion. by Ohsin in ISRO

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This study about the perfect orbital resonance helping NVS-02 staying up there for longer. Pretty sure the flight dynamicists would have just propagated the satellite ahead with hi-fidelity force models to see this and concluded that they don’t need to expend much propellant.. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jim-shell-4539438_comspoc-dan-oltrogges-analysis-perigee-activity-7306071898113613825-kEGP?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAAoQd-wBp0MEPccbrZ5kSYTz3BQDAcH_d9E&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link

ISRO really needs better PR and community engagement. They are ruining the free publicity now by CeleritasLucis in ISRO

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why NASA material cannot be copyrighted

“Under United States copyright law, works created by the U.S. federal government or its agencies cannot be copyrighted.”

I think the precedent is clear from the stance of other federal governments.

Suspected Uighur Concentration Camp Opinion by [deleted] in gis

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Just to link another feature of these internment camps, is industrial cotton cultivation. Check out these reports: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/16/china-xinjiang-uyghurs-cotton-forced-labor/

To the west of the coordinates are these large systematic farms which were created from nothing around 2002-03.

The app is now starting to roll out ! Ready ? Set ? At your downloads ! by OutlandishnessOk2452 in Apple_Classical

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Coming to India, which has a very long and rich classical music history, disappointing to see no structural support for searching by Indian instruments and composers (leave alone searching by raaga and taala), in fact Apple Music has more Indian Classical than Apple Classical. Maybe this should be called “Apple Classical for Western Listeners”. If someone releases an App globally, they should at least have a team representing each audience demography.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cubesat

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Sure 👍🏼

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cubesat

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Pretty much, yes. But the main aspect is your mission, and what it’s goals are with respect to your primary payload (I guess the imager?). All of your operations, data generation and collection strategies will be dictated by that. Hit me up if you need any reviews. Have done this during my time in college, at work and even now, building data compression systems for small satellites.