Recent content by Gargantua2024

Weird that Pragyan doesn't have steerable wheels...does that mean that it can only travel in one direction? Also iirc the rover has six wheels, not four

The crash site of Chandrayaan-2 is 70.8810°S 22.7840°E, while Chandrayaan-3 landed at 69.367621°S 32.348126°E

It is close enough to the depicted designs so far

The panels on the I-Hab are not solar arrays but radiators instead....the way that the PPE's solar arrays is designed on the other hand highly suggests that it is capable of suntracking

Must be a major onboard programming error then

The Moon and its recent kill streak so far lol

The long fairing option was required by the US Space Force for their large spysats that were once originally flew on top of Delta IV-Heavy (like the KH-11, etc), and also to complement Vulcan Centaur if it is unavailable

Yep they are the exact same hardware used in both missions, STS-59 and STS-68

STS-39, STS-64, and the Space Radar Laboratory missions (STS-59 and STS-68) for me

Fair point....the PPE and HALO are going to be launched together anyway, so it makes sense to consider them as a single vessel

Both the PPE and HALO are now planned to launch on a single Falcon Heavy (which in turn requires a long custom fairing) by November 2024

Looks like the Zenith Star's design was inspired by the KH-9, but that satellite was developed for Reagan's Star Wars program (Strategic Defense Initiative)

It is said that the shuttle's payload bay is designed to be that long so that they could carry KH-9 (Hexagon) spy satellites into polar orbits from VAFB. From the article, The HEXAGON and the Space Shuttle

NanoRacks partnered with Airbus and then redesigned their Starlab space station as a result (complete with new interiors)

I think there's a high chance there are TLE data depicting the two space stations' orbital positions at the time of the Soyuz T-15 transfers that are saved at CelesTrak...that can be translated to state vectors if found