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Has the ISS ever not had a lifeboat?

iss crewed-spaceflight soyuz-spacecraft asked Jun 11, 2018 at 18:23

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Unicode phi characters inconsistent between body and preview and across platforms

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How does an array of concrete pillars protect a launch control bunker?

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What orbital inclinations will be launched into from Scotland?

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The Right way to Write

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What are these discs on the Crawler-Transporter?

identify-this-object sls crawler-transporter asked Sep 8, 2018 at 17:18

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What ion engine is used by Hayabusa2?

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What is 'triggered lightning'?

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Range safety for air-launch vehicles

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How does the Parker Solar Probe have such a wide launch window?

orbital-mechanics mission-design parker-solar-probe delta-iv-heavy launch-window asked Aug 1, 2018 at 11:49

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Why was it necessary to program InSight with an ability to land in dust storms?

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Why are so many space telescopes placed in LEO instead of at Lagrange Points? And why do we hear about Hubble more than any Langrange-orbit telescope?

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What is the farthest artificial satellite in orbit in our solar system?

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What holds SpaceX’s rocket in place in this launch?

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Could we see someone walking on Mars from Earth?

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What is the purpose of the satellite that China is putting in lunar orbit?

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Does anyone recognize these rockets, and their location?

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Why is Voyager/Pioneer so slow compared to Parker Solar Probe

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Why does the 2nd stage of Falcon 9 need compressed He tanks?

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Why aren't payloads their own fairings?

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How an americium-241 RTG would differ from one using plutonium-238?

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What would it cost to bring a 1 gram payload to the CMBR rest frame (i.e. Δv 368 km/s ?)

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Can the Right Ascension and Argument of Perigee of a spacecraft's orbit keep varying by themselves with time?

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Has the Earth's red atmosphere rim ever been photographed?

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"Pillars of Baikonur" What is the purpose of the hundreds of short, white posts near the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad?

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Rock flipping operation

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Will an array of multiple ion engines still be more efficient than a single chemical engine?

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Is it possible to change to different orbit inclinations with a simple push?

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Why is the northeastern region of Syrtis Major Planum a selected landing site for the Mars 2020 mission?

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What is the minimal TWR of Falcon 9 booster right before touchdown?

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Debris breaking away from Electron rocket

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Is the ESA Roscosmos ExoMars Orbiter capable of detecting the NASA landers and rovers on the surface of Mars?

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How would a Jupiter flyby have helped to get to the Sun? Why was it later ruled out?

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A spacecraft leaves Earth exactly with escape velocity V2 - what trajectory it will have in Solar System?

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Elliptical orbits transformed to "equivalent" circular orbit

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Will or could the Parker Solar Probe do science at Venus?

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How far will the debris cloud from Hayabusa-2's touch-and-go sample recovery travel around Ryugu? Will any have escaped to heliocentric orbit?

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What is this huge, red, blinking light structure on Earth seen from the ISS in this video?

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How does ROSA unroll? (Roll Out Solar Array)

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Why was TESS' launch window open for only 40 seconds per day?

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