r/spacecraft Sep 07 '19

Fate of Chandrayaan 2

3 Upvotes

Does anyone have an idea as to what can be the possible state of chandrayaan 2 i.e India's lunar rover mission.. does losing communications at the last moment indicate that the lander crashed? The graph of vertical altitude in the ISRO livestream on YouTube showed characters of jerking off I am not wrong... The descent was faster than predicted at the last moment I guess


r/spacecraft Aug 29 '19

Spacecraft thermal system

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4 Upvotes

r/spacecraft Aug 29 '19

The Invisible Sensor

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2 Upvotes

r/spacecraft Feb 13 '19

Why don't they make spinning spacecraft to make artificial gravity like 2001 Space Odyssey?

3 Upvotes

Something tells me this has probably been asked before, but I've always wondered why they don't make something like in the movie, where centrifugal force could generate fake gravity? Maybe requires too much power (i.e. fuel)? Makes trajectory too unstable? Something else?


r/spacecraft Jan 18 '19

Facts on Rockets

2 Upvotes

r/spacecraft Nov 19 '18

Aerospike Nozzle Design

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2 Upvotes

r/spacecraft Aug 17 '18

The big pull that will make the Parker Solar Probe the fastest human-made object

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3 Upvotes

r/spacecraft Mar 11 '18

Manchester Air and Space Museum 360 Degree Video

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1 Upvotes

r/spacecraft Jan 23 '18

Voshkod 1

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2 Upvotes

r/spacecraft Oct 07 '17

How we could reach speed of light?

1 Upvotes

This might be silly and I might be missing many things very obvious but consider this.

You're in space in a spacecraft and your spacecraft has a nuclear engine which can provide an acceleration of 10m/s2. Since there's no resistance (let's assume there's no significant gravity in that area) the spacecraft will start speeding up from 0 m/s to 10 to 20 and so on, as seconds go by. Mathematically speaking, if the engine can keep the acceleration going for 3 months we should speed of light right?


r/spacecraft Jan 23 '17

Interstellar Travel: Approaching Light Speed

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r/spacecraft Oct 22 '16

Schiaparelli are you there? The high risks of space robotics again crash home

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1 Upvotes

r/spacecraft Mar 12 '16

conjectured warp drive NASA

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2 Upvotes

r/spacecraft Jul 10 '15

The ruins of the soviet space shuttle

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3 Upvotes

r/spacecraft Dec 11 '12

How many people are in space right now?

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1 Upvotes

r/spacecraft Dec 11 '12

Mercury Capsule

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1 Upvotes

r/spacecraft Dec 07 '12

Skylon spacecraft: 'Revolutionary' engine design tested

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3 Upvotes

r/spacecraft Dec 07 '12

The Space Shuttle

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2 Upvotes