Y'know, it's always nice when you get a grant from the UN to harvest dead satellites while you're trapped on a recently revived space station. It really helps to grab parts with a steel cable net as they pass by, since it kinda ends up counting as free parts for us to use.
In total we reeled in 5 1/2 TV satellites, a GPS unit's transmitter, and a few bits of old telescope models.
All in all, I'd actually have to say that we were pretty successful for the first time, considering how all we did was weld some piping and nets together and stick it on the outside.
Right now, I'm using the combined antennae of everything we hauled in to try and improve our transmission quality back to ground base. Sure, it requires quite a bit of bending and adapting, but it's at least something to do while we're bored.
Food is still meh.
I am betting their are some power cells in their also.
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8118055 If they get enough nuclear ones together to get to 1.21 gigawatts then, cause I guarantee they are doin' WAAAYYY past 88 mph.
Then all she needs is email an order to O'Reilly auto parts....
http://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor.html
8118069 Got it. As for the flux capacitor...
8118103 They used to have Mr Fusion on their site as well part number 121GMF, but no longer. I had a lot of time wasting at my job in auto parts years ago.
8118132 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wondering how much bandwidth they want the TV sats would have an impressive amount of downrange bandwidth. The military is going to go gagga over the GPS unit. At the moment they own the only GPS cluster out there there other countries are working on it and there was a plan to replace the GPS cluster which is past it designed lifespan but that hasn't happened
8118223 Taking into account that most satellite channels currently stream 720i or higher, (at least, in my area), that means that the average minimum bandwidth of each antenna is about 105 megabytes.
8118237 higher than that since alot of sats carry over 30 channels digital multiplexing can achieve some wonderful things. Those things are being replaced with newer ones
8118290 Oops. I was counting only the individual channels, not the satellites as a whole.
8118304 easy enough to do and some of them are broadcasting both the HD and SD streams. The GPS sats are low bandwidth at least for their public function. Each one broadcasts a time code. The receiver or GPS unit uses 3 of them to triangulate your position then changes let it determine speed ect
Wonder what happened to the other 1/2 sat. Hope its not floating around in pieces. You are supposed to clean things up not make more of a mess
8118347 While I was writing, I imagined that the other 1/2 was broken off from a minor collision during a meteor shower, and that piece reentered earth's atmosphere, where it promptly burned up.