rwesterdahl

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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
"sigh of relief" :)
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Welllll... Technically it does (just use the norad id 25544 and the 'deorbit' service). A bit outside of the capabilities for a single Droid though :(
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Our current design is capable of just over 1 year of continuous propulsive operation. Feel free to mess with our services tool on the website to simulate various missions to see how many operations a single droid could perform! But to answ
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Your grandad speaks truth! Couldn't agree with the vision you laid out more, this is exactly how we see ourselves being an enabler for other businesses and enterprises operating in space.
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Great question and I suspect you are correct regarding the impact being small (Tim Dodd the everyday astronaut, made a great youtube video about rocket launch pollution, check that out for sure https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
We will begin our hiring ramp up soon so check the website again next month!
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Exactly! It is a total chicken and egg problem. What I mean is, who will pay to remove stuff if regulations are not set up accordingly? And if nobody will pay to remove stuff, how do you build a business with that premise? The bridge to rea
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Right now we are primarily focused on building something to address the big stuff because of the possibility of breaking up into thousands of smaller debris. At some point the smaller debris will need to be addressed, in which case its pos
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
I am super stoked about all the other companies working on solutions to the debris problem, and see this problem as too important to leave to any single entity / team (including ourselves!). What differentiates us from some of the oth
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Appreciate the love Orliesaurus, wish us luck!
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Right now NO ONE. Crazy right? Well not really. If you forced people (satellite owners) to pay for someone to deorbit their stuff, before an affordable service exists, that'd be a quick way to put a major damper on the booming space ec
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Great chart from Cathie Woods 'Ark Innovation Report' showing project costs per kg to LEO https://seekingalpha.com/article/4418916-arkx-space-etf-top-... 1. We are utilizing highly efficient electric propulsi
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Currently - no one (in the US). Europeans and Japanese are ahead of the game compared to the US, but it'll come from the Office of Space Commerce / DoD / NASA. Until then, we plan to build the technology by providing orbit m
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Oh yeah. One situation we will avoid - deorbiting other peoples things without their permission. Its international waters out there and if you attempt to dock for example with a Russian rocket upper stage, (as a US company) that would be
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Robotic arms are more general purpose, but we likely will end up doing both at some point (plan on testing both for our demonstration mission). The only downside to electromagnets is you need to pre-emptively install something on the satell
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Thank you Laura, you and your teams support means a lot, and its because of other innovators like yourselves that make something like this possible!
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Not a spur at all, you are spot on! With higher orbits like GEO (35,000 km altitude) it actually makes more sense to take debris and dead satellites out even further to what is known as the 'graveyard' orbit. We can also see a fu
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by rwesterdahl 5y ago
Jawas. Love it. And you are spot on, this is the first step towards expanding to Asteroid resource extraction!
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Launch HN: Turion Space (YC S21) – Space debris removal and satellite servicing
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