A US military exercise to launch a satellite on short notice

(arstechnica.com)

47 points | by jonbaer 2 days ago

3 comments

  • mysteria 13 minutes ago
    They published an official press release on this on the 22nd.

    https://rocketlabcorp.com/updates/victus-haze/

  • khurs 1 hour ago
    Good spot by whoever noticed it!
  • ck2 11 minutes ago
    Can we swap the US Military and NASA budgets for just one year please?

    Just one year

    It would be AMAZING

    Or even what we fund Israel's 2/3 of all their weapons are bought by US

    We'd have 10% speed of light probes going outside of solar system already

    Well at least Nancy Grace Roman L2 Telescope is launching, hope it goes perfectly

    • cg5280 5 minutes ago
      In 2024, the average American spent about $17,000 on taxes. Nearly $4000 of that went to the DoD, about $3500 went to interest on federal debt.

      I think it’s fun to think about it in this way. I personally spend hundreds of dollars a month on war.

    • avmich 8 minutes ago
      Can we really accelerate any probe to faster than 1% c? Or 2% c?
      • patagurbon 5 minutes ago
        We have the physics but not the engineering. See the Breakthrough Starshot project for instance
      • r2_pilot 5 minutes ago
        Yes, with lasers or nuclear energy