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Why making such a big deal with Max Q?
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How serious a problem can outgassing of satellites be?
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From which NASA publication originates/where can I find a higher resolution version of this SSME flow diagram?
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How is a desired chamber pressure achieved in a liquid rocket engine
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Is there any point in space that the James Webb Space Telescope would be unable to image?
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Is there any point in space that the James Webb Space Telescope would be unable to image?
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What would happen to an astronaut on the surface of Mars if a Carrington-event-like superflare hit the red planet?
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Could JWST operate with failed or partial wing mirror deployment?
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How to transform from the spacecraft coordinate system to image coordinates?
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Could a Human reach escape velocity by jumping from the surface of Ceres (a dwarf planet)?
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Are VASIMR + Arcjet engines feasible for orbital transfers on Mars?
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Obtaining orbital state vectors given two position vectors and an eccentricity
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The temperature displayed online for Webb has not changed even one degree in days, even though the sunshield deployed in that time. Why? [closed]
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Is there a "sample tube manual eject" switch that can be externally accessed on Perseverance?
Awarded Dec 31 '21 at 2:40
Help me understand these tweeted images of JWST moving through Orion!
Awarded Dec 30 '21 at 16:37
Does James Webb have any protection against meteoroids/space debris?
Awarded Dec 30 '21 at 12:32
Where do the numbers 101,972 and 3,600 come from in terms of Thrust-Specific Fuel Consumption (TSFC or SFC)?
Awarded Dec 30 '21 at 9:48
Why did the JWST solar array deploy early?
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Positions of asteroids in heliocentric ecliptic (x,y,z) coordinates
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Why should the James Webb Space telescope stay in the unstable L2?
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Why is the James Webb Space Telescope temperature not shown?
Awarded Dec 29 '21 at 0:56
Why is the speed of James Webb Space Telescope decreasing?
Awarded Dec 28 '21 at 16:03
Why is JWST parked in sunlight, rather than using a nuclear battery?
Awarded Dec 28 '21 at 14:21
How exactly was this video perspective of the James Webb space telescope heading into deep space achieved?
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Would the ship using the Alcubierre drive need to use conventional propulsion to move during warp? Or would the space-time "wave" push it?
Awarded Dec 26 '21 at 14:37
Why did JWST (Ariane 5) dip down before rising back up? [duplicate]
Awarded Dec 26 '21 at 0:46
Would the ship using the Alcubierre drive need to use conventional propulsion to move during warp? Or would the space-time "wave" push it?
Awarded Dec 25 '21 at 22:50
Why don't robotic spacecraft have "general purpose" companions?
Awarded Dec 25 '21 at 17:25
If the James Webb Space Telescope explodes, is there a backup?
Awarded Dec 25 '21 at 17:10
Will the James Webb Space Telescope be insured against launch failure?
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"Hohmann-Like" and Chemical / Electric Thrust Comparison
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What is the intuition behind crossing angular momentum to derive the eccentricity vector?
Awarded Dec 24 '21 at 16:01
How will JWST extract the infrared signal from the desired early sources from all the other infrared it will see?
Awarded Dec 23 '21 at 6:42
Just how steep are Pluto's tallest ice mountains?
Awarded Dec 23 '21 at 5:06
How will JWST extract the infrared signal from the desired early sources from all the other infrared it will see?
Awarded Dec 23 '21 at 3:55
Access to Chebyshev coefficients from JPL ephemerides
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Failing at getting apogee and perigee from TLE
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What are the moving particles that can be seen by the Parker Solar Probe?
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How much equipment will be required to mine 600 tons of water ice on Mars?
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What limits pressure buildup in SRB's?
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What is the largest number of humans in space at the same time and what vessels were they on when it happened?
Awarded Dec 12 '21 at 8:36
What is a good SNR value for a chipsat in LEO using bpsk?
Awarded Dec 8 '21 at 11:48
Why do rockets have multiple stages?
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Time-scale for investigation of the "hut" object observed from the Yutu-2 lunar rover
Awarded Dec 7 '21 at 16:46
Computationally solving the two-body problem for patched conics approximation
Awarded Dec 6 '21 at 17:15
Is RCS a good option to control roll during the atmospheric phase of the launch vehicle?
Awarded Dec 4 '21 at 19:20
Shouldn't space junk fall back to Earth on its own? How long will take for a ~1 cm piece of junk in LEO to fall back to Earth on its own for example?
Awarded Dec 3 '21 at 15:50
How to calculate the force applied by a magnetorquer on a piece of a perfect ferromagnetic material?
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Has ion propulsion ever been used in a deep space trajectory correction maneuver proper?
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How much did we know about space in 1940? [closed]
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How will DART be able to hit a 170 meter rock dead-center at over 6000 m/s? What technologies will be use and how will they work together?
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