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Currently Planned Rocket Launches

Upcoming 01. November 2022 JPSS-2 Already started 27. September 2022 NASA Artemis Lunar Mission 21. April 2022 Starlink Group 4-14 23. April 2022 SpaceX Crew-4 30. March 2022 Axiom Mission 1 (or Ax-1) s a planned SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It will send four people to the ISS for…

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Pipenv Easter Egg

I’ve found this little easter egg hidden in pipenv: if not environments.PIPENV_HIDE_EMOJIS: now = time.localtime() # Halloween easter-egg. if ((now.tm_mon == 10) and (now.tm_mday == 30)) or ( (now.tm_mon == 10) and (now.tm_mday == 31) ): INSTALL_LABEL = “🎃 ” # Christmas easter-egg. elif ((now.tm_mon == 12) and (now.tm_mday == 24)) or ( (now.tm_mon ==…

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Was ist los in Deutschland

Eigentlich hatte ich mir vorgenommen nichts über Corona / Covid19 zu schreiben, weil ich weder Virologe, Epidemiologe oder Politiker bin. Da mich die aktuelle Situation in Deutschland belastet und ich das irgendwie kanalisieren muss, schreibe ich meine Gedanken trotzdem nieder. Normalerweise schreibe ich meine Artikel auf Englisch. Da sich aber alles hier auf die spezielle…

What is the Karman line?

tl;dr; The Karman line defines the edge of space. It is set to 100km above the Earth’s mean sea level and separates aeronautics from astronautics. So to be an astronaut you have to travel higher than 100km from Earth’s surface. Why is that? To fly with a conventional airplane you need the air to generate…

What is LEO?

LEO stands for Low Earth Orbit. It ranges from 200km to 2000 km. The ISS orbits the earth between 370km and 460 km. Due to atmospheric drag the orbit decreases over time The Hubble Telescope orbits a bit higher at 545km to 549km Other orbits Overview Satellite Orbit ISS 400km Hubble 545km Starlink 550km Iridium…