Kichigai

Kichigai OP t1_ja9t8c4 wrote

Pounds of it! I always make sure there's food in their bowls. But this is breakfast, when I go through the routine of cracking open a can for them. It's what happens in the morning, and if it doesn't happen then something is wrong. They don't even wolf all the wet food down at once. They graze on that through the day.

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Kichigai t1_ixsolqf wrote

Information linked to in this tweet would seem to corroborate this.

>“Each of Orion’s four solar array wings has a commercial off-the-shelf camera mounted at the tip that has been highly modified for use in space, providing a view of the spacecraft exterior,” said David Melendrez, imagery integration lead for the Orion Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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Kichigai t1_ixrzyhi wrote

Among everything else folks have said for reasons, doesn't hurt to do some endurance testing. If we're gonna put a few people inside this tin can for 2+ weeks we may as well know for sure how well the craft will hold up for that long.

Maybe we'll discover that some heat sink is inadequately dispersing heat, and it's only through long term operation that we can see this happening. Maybe whatever newfangled material we're making the windows out of start to delaminate, but only after prolonged bombardment by cosmic rays.

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Kichigai t1_ixrzdr8 wrote

Have we fully radiation hardened digital imaging sensors? It's getting a good blast of all sorts of fun particles from Mr. Sun right then, wouldn't shock me one iota if they were being picked up by, or interfering with, the imaging sensor.

If it were a CMOS sensor it would make sense that you'd see per-line artifacting like this, though I might guess that NASA might use a CCD for this application.

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