Show HN: My high school team's space probe

Re:Show HN: My high school team's space probe by JohnOfOsgiliath on Monday March 17, 2025 @03:00AM (#43385838)

To be fair, we probably should have mentioned that. We simply chose PLA because it is easy to manufacture with. Possibly, things could have gone south pretty quickly. If we do something similar again, we could use some fancy machined metal for the housing.

Yeah, I can definitely relate. Fortunately, we had a team who was kind of interested at the start, so we could work from there. To be honest, I've learned so much from this, it's definitly worth the time I put in.

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Re:Show HN: My high school team's space probe by doctorwho42 on Monday March 17, 2025 @12:44PM (#43390373)

No need to do fancy metal, you can use pre-existing documents and standards about appropriate materials for space, vacuum, etc.

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Re:Show HN: My high school team's space probe by JohnOfOsgiliath on Monday March 17, 2025 @02:36PM (#43391458)

I looked it up and found this: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nasa_std_601...

I quickly read through and found it fascinating.

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