Re:Launch HN: Turion Space (YC S21) – Space debris removal a...
by rwesterdahl on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:31PM
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Our current design is capable of just over 1 year of continuous propulsive operation. Feel free to mess with our services tool on the website to simulate various missions to see how many operations a single droid could perform! But to answer your question, yes, several orbital inclinations are highly populated with operational satellites and debris. A mission such as going from 55° inclination to polar would be possible but very expensive (ie would likely drain a significant amount of life out of the Droid on a single mission). This is why we want to build a constellation of vehicles spread across many inclinations.
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Re:Launch HN: Turion Space (YC S21) – Space debris removal a...
by enriquto on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:54AM
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> Our current design is capable of just over 1 year of continuous propulsive operation.
> (...) would likely drain a significant amount of life out of the Droid on a single mission
These two sentences are contradictory.
Unless by "continuous propulsive operation" you mean something that is, confusingly, not continuous propulsive operation.
Re:Launch HN: Turion Space (YC S21) – Space debris removal a...
by zamadatix on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:30AM
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They are not contradictory you've just removed the context explaining why they wouldn't put said inefficient thing in a mission plan. There are plenty of objects to clean up without having to shift your orbital inclination so drastically.
Re:Launch HN: Turion Space (YC S21) – Space debris removal a...
by curtainsforus on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:48AM
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Unless it's using a low-thrust-high-efficiency drive such that significant inclination changes take a year.
Re:Launch HN: Turion Space (YC S21) – Space debris removal a...
by mrlowlevel on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:37AM
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Unless of course the maneuver takes a significant part of a year