This can be seen in action here in Europe. Near Antwerp, in Kruibeke, we stumbled upon a military base when deviating from the A14 to fill the tank.
The whole area is blurred in google maps.
A good counterexample is the Arctic Weather Satellite project. It was defined as a new space process at ESA, so documentation required was reduced at the minimum, and risk acceptance was increased. Absolutely successful, on time, on budget, contractors happy, end users happy. But it is a small project and still difficult to replicate at large and to spread the mindset to other sections at ESA.
Source: me. I work at that project as ground segment engineer.
At first I was confused by the title (my fault) and thought that the article had to do with geo-localization. And only after several paragraphs I could switch to language localization :D
The plan was for the last payloads to separate from second stage and deorbit along with it. That was the delivery.
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end of this the upper stage will flip in space and restart the Vinci engine to
break and set itself on a collision
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course with Earth burning up in our atmosphere and limiting space debris but
before it touches atmosphere two
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capsules are set to detach and had on their own mission to survive the extreme
temperatures of the re-entry and all
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three elements will then splash down in the Pacific Ocean far away from
civilization this will end our mission
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according to this new situation which means that the Vinci engine decided not
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to restart because there was no ipu uh operating so he was not in a good
condition to restart and so there was a
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passivation of the upper stage which was triggered in order to make it an object
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which does not create um dangers of debris and the passivation works
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perfectly according to plan uh and also it was the the launcher system decided
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automatically not to to release the two capsules the two passengers because it
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would have created additional debr and so uh we have an event which is not
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understood yet which is why did the Apu stop but all the rest of the mission was
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I don't understand, from the article, how Sora works when handling a rotation of an object on another object (the leaves in the leaf covered elefant for example). The explanation goes only to the diffussion model, but not to how, from that model, a correct geometry deformation is derived at each step.
At first I find it difficult to concentrate, but then I started really enjoying the article, and in way I think it is much better than current low-content-big-font websites. But yes, I was raised with this kind of content, so it seems that when I started enjoying was because I synced with a style that I already knew.
I find very difficult to believe that any personal effort on mitigating CO2 emissions is worth it. A single decision by an individual working on a big company does make the difference, either for better or for worse, but not our own indvidual actions as CO2 emitters.
