Fellow Futurists,
🚀👩🚀👨🚀What an amazing day for comercial space flight!!!
Huge congratulations to SpaceX on the first comercial space walk in history. The crew flew out 700km then stepped out to streach their legs and test the new extravehicular activity(EVA) suits. Building a base on the Moon and a city on Mars will require thousands of spacesuits; the development of this suit and the execution of the EVA are important steps toward a scalable design for spacesuits on future. While the earth-to-space side of the mission was impressive in itself, what really blew my mind was Starlink’s l laser based space-to-earth streaming video link. I’m still digging deeper into this side of it and trust me… 🤯
I fell down a space tech rabbit hole a few months back so I was fully geeked out with my own ‘mini’ mission control setup this morning using GPredict, an open source satellite tracking suite, and the spacex YouTube channel.
Apologies to my neighbors who were wondering why the crazy tech guy was waving an attenna around at 5am this morning. 🙇♂️ No radio signals from the capsule, I do have a pretty sweet setup now to pinpoint 🛰 space junk as it flys by though and it works great!
What a time to be alive! #spacetech
🔗s:
Polaris program: https://polarisprogram.com/dawn/
Gpredict: https://oz9aec.dk/gpredict/
Polaris Dawn TLE data: https://isstracker.pl/en/satelity/61042
SpaceX YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/VjHzpOqu5iU?si
Happy Helpful Robots