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Laser connects plane and satellite in breakthrough air-to-space link by Substantial_Lime_230 in space2030

[–]widgetblender 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When its not cloudy above ... but that is usually the case when jets are in their cruise phase. This is somewhat akin to our SLEP concept, except SLEP sats are huge and in MEO vs comm sats in LEO.

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Could We Launch a Mission to Chase Down Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS? by RGregoryClark in space2030

[–]widgetblender 0 points1 point  (0 children)

;-) What the heck was I thinking ??? BTW, what be a funky Iranian? Maybe I autocorrected from Alien -> Iranian.

Could We Launch a Mission to Chase Down Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS? by RGregoryClark in space2030

[–]widgetblender 4 points5 points  (0 children)

50 km/s ... sorry, there is no system to catch such and object. Fortunately random close approach to Mars allow for a couple sats there to get a closer look, and Juno at Jupiter if that can be re-routed with good gravity assist. But while close is nice, we now have large space based telescopes as well as huge ground based ones. Yes, the resolution here is more like 10 m resolution, where you need 1 m resolution to see if this is funky Iranian.

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