Space launches over time infographic - Democratic Underground

pokerfan

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Tue Oct-11-11 12:00 PM
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Space launches over time infographic

This graphic groups payloads by the nationality of the owner. A satellite, a capsule of cosmonauts, or a deep-space probe would each count as one payload. The data, which run through July 2011, were drawn from hundreds of sources, including space agency documents, academic journals, and interviews. They were compiled by Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and author of Jonathan's Space Report, a newsletter that tracks launches.

PDF at link: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38339

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tridim

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Tue Oct-11-11 12:05 PM
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1. Winner of craziest graph format ever

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pokerfan

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Tue Oct-11-11 12:38 PM
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2. I like it

Very easy to visualize the information.

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AlecBGreen

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Tue Oct-11-11 02:03 PM
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3. me too

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Ready4Change

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Wed Oct-12-11 09:32 AM
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4. Agreed

Edited on Wed Oct-12-11 09:33 AM by Ready4Change

Works.

And wow. Makes me wonder what all that Soviet/Russian military stuff was.

On edit: Article mentions those were short lived military surveillance satellites.

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krispos42

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Thu Oct-13-11 11:16 PM
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6. If memory serves...

...the early recon birds had film cameras. After doing a recon run, it would re-enter and the film would be recovered and developed.

It took a while before satellites were able to transmit their pictures via radio waves.

I presume it took the Soviets longer to perfect this technology than the US.

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Wed Oct-12-11 05:31 PM
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5. Hints that the Space Age is mostly behind us.

I've long suspected/feared this.

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