Post #1402550

2026-04-19 16:00 UTC

One would think we should just ship it some upgraded parts on a door dash rocket, since we presumably have far better technology now. No? No? Oh well I guess the USA is not that great then,

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@abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 17:01

The problem is that you’re not just sending parts out there. You have to: - get the upgrade rocket going fast enough to actually catch up with something going very fast with a 20 year head start - slow down once you get to it. - make the upgrades while floating in space on a piece of hardware that was designed not to be upgraded and built on earth (hope you don’t need gravity for disassembly) that you control on a 30 minute delay. At that point we could just launch a whole new satellite with better hardware, going faster, and covering a completely different area of space. Which is what we have done. But we can still make use of the system we have out there. It’s still the furthest out, so it’s still worth using for as long as we can

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@garbage_world@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 17:09

This is just dumb

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