ThisIsTheWay

Awesome work. SAR imagery is notoriously fickle, and it is amazing to see these results from a DIYer.

This is a helpful image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere#/media/File:PIA170...

Agreed. The focal range is something like 90KM to 1400KM based on this image and other off nadir images that have been shared by DigitalGlobe/Maxar, and it really makes you wonder what the focusing mechanism is fully capable of.

No. Countries of the world have been imaging each others satellites for decades. The only thing that has changed recently is that now companies can do this commercially in an unclassified manner.

https://blog.executivebiz.com/2022/12/noaa-adds-non-earth-im...

https://www.maxar.com/non-earth-imaging

The sample distance (SSD) is noted on the GIF, and ranges between 6.5 and 4.6 cm for the images shown here.

I quite like the inclusion of the help needed section. I work for a publicly traded company so I don't know if it has much application for our size, but for a pre-IPO company it seems like a great opportunity to leverage the skills of their smaller investor base.

I also like the transparency of sharing it with ALL investors, and would add that it needs to be shared with all employees as well. Our publicly traded company is in the midst of an acquisition and a lot of detail has been shared with our investors. The issue is that most employees are not signed up to our investor alerts or monitoring SEC filings. It has resulted in some employees remarking that they felt left in the dark by leadership because they hear about acquisition details from the press (who pay attention to IR and SEC docs) instead of their own company leaders.

The few comments that are in there are kinda funny too:

> #fucking awful global variable that is is changed by the confirm() function of the pieces

> #math shit

> #i don't know what im doing

Is this distinction why they are often called the Top 3, not the Big 3?

First, the word free is most frequently interpreted as not costing money, which in this case is completely true. Second, your comparison to a false claim by the NYT is absurd.

All you had to do was close the tab and move on. I can't imagine getting through life making this big a deal on such a minor inconvenience. Good luck out there.

Is it really that hard to use a burner email?

What regulations do you suggest?

This varies greatly by area. The Denver/Boulder corridor has been exploding for the last 10 years and they can't build fast enough.

Are you talking about Boeing being complacent and greedy, or SpaceX? I'd agree with the former, but not the latter.

And many merchants either have this priced into their product already, or charge a fee to process a card.

Derp, yes I did mean Boeing. BO pulled out of commercial crew a while back. Thank you for the correction.

It's likely a very very small group, but I am certain there are some ultra high net worth members of HN that are SpaceX investors, either directly through family offices, or indirectly through private equity funds.

I'm wondering if NASA will change their plans for Mark Vande Hei to return on Dragon instead of Soyuz. His return is planned for later this month, so I suppose we'll know pretty soon.

> I do not understand this thirst at seeing a private company monopolising space travel.

I don't think the poster your replying to is saying that, nor do I think the market is headed in that direction. Currently, SpaceX has the only crew certified transport aside from Russia's Soyuz capsule for transport to ISS. That is likely to change in the next two years as Blue Origin continue their certification process and NASA's SLS gets closer to launch (whether or not SLS is a good decision is a totally separate conversation). The more options, the better.

> I reckon I'm one of the few on this forum that doesn't hold SpaceX stock.

I reckon there are only a few that do actually hold SpaceX stock, given the fact they are a private company with limited investment opportunities for the common person.

That is not true in all locations. They have delivery specialist reqs open right now.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/peloton/jobs/3883515

> we all know it matters the route your hardware and software comes from if you are involved in national security.

No security apparatus in the world has the capability to build and execute everything they want to on their own. Hardware and software is always procured from multiple sources.

I agree about UAE wanting to keep their cards close to the chest, but I think the choice between NSO/other third party hacking groups and developing in house is an AND statement, not OR. At the end of the day, developing adequate zero day chains that provide access akin to NSO's Pegasus is an extremely time and talent intensive endeavor, and having multiple options to procure those capabilities is the more likely solution.

> It sounds to me like the UAE made a decision to stop paying vast sums of money to the NSO group and started throwing money at trying to develop their own similar domestic capability.

Porque no los dos?

In addition to Darknet Diaries, there is a lot of interesting info in Nicole Perlroth's new book titled "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends"

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/this-is-how-they-tell-me-the-w...

Episode 100 is specifically about NSO and dives deeper into Pegasus. Highly recommended listening after episodes 98 and 99.

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/100/

I know its a minor inconvenience, but this is one of my biggest pet peeves with the whole OS. I wish there was a way to change the setting to actually control things with control center...

I'll admit I'm a podcast novice, but what player are you using and what does it offer beyond Spotify? I find, download, and play podcasts through Spotify without issues, and the few features I need (speed adjustment, offline access, and show notes/links) are all available on Spotify.

If there is a better way to listen, I'd love to hear about it.

I also expected the competition between two (or more) contactors to be the choice, but with BO just now approaching human test flights, I can understand why they selected SpaceX to move forward if they could only fund one system.

One reason that comes to mind is that it would be a totally new use case for Dragon capsules. SpaceX had originally planned them to use propulsive landing on return to Earth, but abandoned that plan in lieu of more traditional water landing returns. To land on the moon (and Mars) they will need to pick up where they left off and continue with the propulsive landing plans, albeit in a much lower gravity environment.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/07/19/propulsive-landings-ni...

You can get a great education from a state school or community college for less than $30K where I live. Travelling and staying in hostels for 4 years isn't free, and like it or not, a majority of the time employers are going to favor a degree over experience travelling the world.

Sure, but there is a lot more going on in a university setting - particularly one one campus and learning in person - that results in learning beyond the curriculum of a student's major. While I dreaded the prospect of taking a class on feminism, which was a requirement for my degree, that class pushed me outside my comfort zone and I learned far more about the world than I did in my upper div classes. The downside of MOOCs is being able to pick and choose the classes that you want to take instead of a full curriculum that lends itself to developing a more well rounded student.