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To: Moonman62

Cool the way they deploy these things too. They spin the craft so that centrifugal force kind of tosses them out.


29 posted on 06/04/2020 4:00:31 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: Pollard

Cool the way they deploy these things too. They spin the craft so that centrifugal force kind of tosses them out.

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Agreed. Figuring out a way to pack 60 satellites in the fairing and getting them deployed took some creative thinking and risk taking.

It’s what Musk calls engineering from first principles.


30 posted on 06/04/2020 5:24:39 AM PDT by Moonman62 (http://www.freerepublic.com/~moonman62/)
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