raptop changed the topic of #principia to: READ THE FAQ: http://goo.gl/gMZF9H; The current version is Galileo. We currently target 1.5.1, 1.6.1, 1.7.x, 1.8.1, and 1.9.1. <scott_manley> anyone that doubts the wisdom of retrograde bop needs to get the hell out | https://xkcd.com/323/ | <egg> calculating the influence of lamont on Pluto is a bit silly… | <egg> also 4e16 m * 2^-52 is uncomfortably large
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[Principia] pleroy closed pull request #2620: Polynomial primitive and a few templates - https://git.io/JJJvE
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[Principia] pleroy pushed 5 commits to master [+0/-0/±12] https://git.io/JJJaT
<raptop>
hrm, limited time in the lunar shadow appears to be a thing
<raptop>
But also good visibility of lunar farside
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Transparent_Elemental. — orbits can't be tidally locked, only the planets can @Stonesmile
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Stonesmile. — Sure, let's rephrase that to matching presession, meaning the normal to the orbit pointing towards earth at all times
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Stonesmile. — Sure, let's rephrase that to matching precession, meaning the normal to the orbit pointing towards earth at all times (edited)
<raptop>
I mean, you can do that with an elongated spacecraft in a low orbit IIRC because tidal torques exist?
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Transparent_Elemental. — @Stonesmile there's is a very good document from NASA out there somewhere that compares orbits that could've been chosen for Gateway that was posted in this discord a couple of times, but i can't find it right now. Basically the point of this orbit is low delta-v required for station keeping (although not 0 since it's not a frozen orbit), most of the time communications with earth i
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Stonesmile. — Okey, so quite a few advantages, facing earth at all time just happens to be a bonus?
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Transparent_Elemental. — i don't know about it facing earth, if something i'm sure they could've turn the station or use multiple antennas
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Transparent_Elemental. — at least that is not mentioned in the comparison
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Transparent_Elemental. — i don't know about it facing earth, if something i'm sure they could've turned the station or use multiple antennas (edited)
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egg. — > Have fun with 1.10.0 I guess, egg
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egg. — comets? that appear and split up? That is scary.