Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf]

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snthd•about 3 hours ago

Related - spaceweather.com measure drag using the decay of starlink orbits.

https://spaceweather.com/starlink/starlink_drag_explainer.ht...

stymaar•about 3 hours ago

Clever idea, too bad they didn't bother writing down their blog post themselves and posted AI slop instead.

voxleone•about 2 hours ago

>>AI writing is everywhere -- except here. This website is written by Dr. Tony Phillips, a carbon-based lifeform with 30 yrs of forecasting experience.

Could they be lying?

snthd•about 3 hours ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20260924014030/https://www.osti....

ck2•about 1 hour ago

could LEO sats have pitot tubes? would they work at ultra-low drag?

my Stryd has a pitot tube and can detect 1mph wind fairly accurately

some advanced drones also have pitot tubes

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitot_tube

* https://store.3dr.com/pitot-tube-set/