Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf]

(osti.gov)

4 points | by walrus01 2 days ago

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snthd 20 minutes ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260924014030/https://www.osti....
snthd 21 minutes ago
Related - spaceweather.com measure drag using the decay of starlink orbits.
https://spaceweather.com/starlink/starlink_drag_explainer.ht...
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- stymaar 14 minutes ago
  Clever idea, too bad they didn't bother writing down their blog post themselves and posted AI slop instead.