
Satellites: forging metal and finding cholera
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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How to Make Your Satellites Compatible With Different Launch Vehicles
The key thing about launches, people tend to focus on the cost of launch. So when you're looking at launch, it really does make sense to make your satellite compatible with as many different launch vehicles as you can. You've got to look at what your options are and make sure you're compatible with them. We want to minimize the amount of stuff we have floating around the planet at any one time. How does that fit into satellites? Is there a renewable element to the things that you're putting up into space? Once you are able to do that, the space debris basically goes away as a problem. But I can see satellite repair person being a job in the future.
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