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What is the purpose of the rotating dish antenna on the ISS
Awarded Sep 23 '20 at 16:03
How certain are we that we have not accidentally sent life to other planets/moons?
Awarded Sep 23 '20 at 3:40
How many plants would be needed to produce oxygen enough for 20 humans?
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Challenger Shuttle: could the crew have survived?
Awarded Sep 22 '20 at 8:25
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How rover landing is achieved on planets with very low atmospheric pressure?
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Significance of Venus surface photos
Awarded Sep 18 '20 at 19:27
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How do people drink from cups in Space?
Awarded Sep 17 '20 at 4:17
Quantum technology for starship communications and landing on Mars
Awarded Sep 17 '20 at 1:15
Low-pressure pump-fed rocket engine?
Awarded Sep 16 '20 at 17:31
What is the feasibility of a graphite chamber, nozzle and bell walls
Awarded Sep 16 '20 at 11:09
Maneuver in the intersection of 2 orbits
Awarded Sep 15 '20 at 10:48
How often have signs of life been dismissed as abiotic?
Awarded Sep 15 '20 at 7:56
How much cheaper are pressure fed engines compared to other cycles (e.g. staged combustion, gas generator, electric pump-fed)?
Awarded Sep 14 '20 at 20:52
Can I see the ISS from the surface with the naked eye?
Awarded Sep 14 '20 at 18:03
Trying to make a program to calculate (liquid) engine size. Can you please help me check for any problems?
Awarded Sep 13 '20 at 18:27
How did the GoFast 2014 Rocket de-spin?
Awarded Sep 12 '20 at 3:32
Are satellites whose orbits go below 100 km perigee considered having multiple spaceflights?
Awarded Sep 11 '20 at 17:11
At which pressure does a liquid fueled rocket start producing supersonic flow?
Awarded Sep 10 '20 at 22:57
How does the hopping mechanism of the Minerva II rovers work?
Awarded Sep 10 '20 at 5:27
What are the most common practical design specifications for antenna in space?
Awarded Sep 9 '20 at 18:10
Falcon-9/Starship landing on an uneven surface
Awarded Sep 9 '20 at 9:12
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Awarded Sep 7 '20 at 10:43
What “improvements in technology” allowed the primary mirror of RST (WFIRST) to be less than 1/4 the weight of Hubble's?
Awarded Sep 6 '20 at 0:05
How much of the energy of a rocket ends up as a noise?
Awarded Sep 5 '20 at 2:17
Accuracy of converting from TLE/Orbital Elements to Cartesian if used for other propagator?
Awarded Sep 3 '20 at 17:05
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Awarded Aug 31 '20 at 23:27
Why don't we build standardized space probes?
Awarded Aug 30 '20 at 3:32
Harvesting Venus atmosphere to Terraform Mars
Awarded Aug 24 '20 at 21:25
Is there any video footage of a full reentry?
Awarded Aug 24 '20 at 17:52
Did Conrad and Bean balk at entering the 650-foot-wide Surveyor Crater, or just express concern? What data had they seen?
Awarded Aug 24 '20 at 11:02
Demonstrating molten oxide electrolysis on the Moon, what would require the most power, keeping it molten or driving the electrolysis?
Awarded Aug 24 '20 at 8:30
Can you really use Arduino for a small spacecraft?
Awarded Aug 23 '20 at 8:57
Why does a satellite with a higher mass fall slower?
Awarded Aug 23 '20 at 5:57
Semi-feasible alternates to silicon electronics for a Von Neumann Probe?
Awarded Aug 22 '20 at 3:48
In what ways is helium used on modern launch vehicles?
Awarded Aug 21 '20 at 13:52
Would it be easier to put humans on Venus rather than Mars?
Awarded Aug 21 '20 at 9:21
Problems receiving Iridium messages during the middle of the 'day' in the far North
Awarded Aug 21 '20 at 6:46
How is satellite position tracked in practice?
Awarded Aug 21 '20 at 6:36
How is the software for scientific space missions developed?
Awarded Aug 19 '20 at 13:21
Why isn't SpaceX constructing the Super Heavy launch mount on top of the water?
Awarded Aug 19 '20 at 11:05
Why might an astronaut wear their wristwatch very loosely aboard the ISS?
Awarded Aug 19 '20 at 2:41
Apparent Centering Problem When Using the Perifocal System to Draw Orbital Ellipses
Awarded Aug 19 '20 at 0:10
What's the new hexagonal structure for in Boca Chica TX, SpaceX
Awarded Aug 18 '20 at 15:42
Is disabling glare common in space?
Awarded Aug 17 '20 at 23:55
Has a probe ever been lost due to folding its antenna, making it unable to communicate?
Awarded Aug 17 '20 at 1:56
What is the “mistake” that caused Doug Loverro to resign as NASA's Human SpaceflightChief so shortly before DM-2?
Awarded Aug 16 '20 at 5:41
Rocket Engine - Actuator in Loop Simulations
Awarded Aug 15 '20 at 12:10
What would Red Dragon's realistic payload mass be?
Awarded Aug 14 '20 at 18:48
Are planet orbits available to download in some vectorial format file?
Awarded Aug 13 '20 at 12:17
Error in Propagating equatorial orbit using GMAT
Awarded Aug 13 '20 at 11:05
When and when not to use the SDLS protocol?
Awarded Aug 12 '20 at 9:50
Why is Perseverance's RTG lifetime only 14 years?
Awarded Aug 12 '20 at 9:40
What is the highest possible altitude of a sub-orbital flight?
Awarded Aug 9 '20 at 11:47
What was leaking in Starship SN5 before takeoff?
Awarded Aug 7 '20 at 20:06
Did/does the US use statute or nautical miles to decide who gets astronaut wings?
Awarded Aug 7 '20 at 15:21
What is the formula for the gain factor of a ferromagnetic core for a torquer coil rod?
Awarded Aug 7 '20 at 8:07
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