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To: ETL

That’s actually pretty cool. I wonder how close they actually are to each other.

My son is a flight operations engineer at NASA. He controls an array of four satellites that orbit in formation, sometimes as close as four kilometers apart. although the “flying” is all done by strings of commands performed well in advance, it’s still pretty stressful.

His is a scientific mission and the satellites are worth about a billion dollars each. Not a mistake you want to make.


3 posted on 05/09/2021 6:28:30 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: cyclotic
That’s actually pretty cool.

If someone wasn't aware of this project, and if they had a brain in their head, it would be one heck of a shock looking up and seeing this. Less so if they were previously familiar with observing satellites in the sky. Once, while camping, we saw a tight triangular formation of satellites. Turned out they were US Navy spy satellites.

Most interesting having a son involved in such a thing, and at such a high level. You must be very proud of him.

9 posted on 05/09/2021 6:47:53 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: cyclotic

I never heard of a single satellite being worth a billion dollars, much less four of them in formation EACH worth a billion.


16 posted on 05/09/2021 7:36:50 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: cyclotic

At least they could have done was put them up into a square formation and have them flash Eat at Joes.


22 posted on 05/09/2021 8:05:45 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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