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Is Russia Maneuvering to Threaten an Iceye Satellite? (integrityisr.com)
23 points by yread 26 days ago
4 comments
rramadass 26 days ago
ICEYE - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICEYE

Technical Documentation - https://sar.iceye.com/6.0.2/productspecification/introductio...

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pants2 26 days ago
Given that USA has 10X the number of orbital launches as Russia, sacrificing 4 satellites to destroy 1 American sat doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
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leephillips 26 days ago
What are these units relating the rate of use of fuel: m/s? Is it the velocity of expelled reaction gas?
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inhumantsar 26 days ago
I think that's delta-v.
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leephillips 26 days ago
I’ll take your word for it; I’m not familiar with satellite-speak.

But to me,

“In this case, the fuel required to conduct such a maneuver is ~105-106m/sec”

means that they’re talking about a quantity of fuel, but giving a velocity.

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sixeyes 23 days ago
Horrible website design. One of the worst ones ive seen in a while
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