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Did that guy ARMSTRONG really step foot on the MOON?


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Was it raise that was always saying all the moon landings and even deep space probes were fake? He claimed the van allen radiation belts would kill any astronaut passing through them, I dont buy that at all.

Now we have russian probes to the moon and more, chinese as well and even from india, I guess they're all lying too.

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16 minutes ago, mikeman said:

Was it raise that was always saying all the moon landings and even deep space probes were fake? He claimed the van allen radiation belts would kill any astronaut passing through them, I dont buy that at all.

Now we have russian probes to the moon and more, chinese as well and even from india, I guess they're all lying too.

Yes, some poster was convinced all moon landings FAKE

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13 minutes ago, milwaukee mike said:

people really believe we could livestream from the freaking moon lol

 

Geo stationary satellites are roughly 22000 miles away, the moon is only 10 times further, not hard at all.

In 1961, NASA awarded a $4 million contract to the Hughes Aircraft Company to design and build the first geostationary satellites. The three satellites, known as Syncom 1, 2, and 3, were individually launched in 1963 and early 1964, and remained active until 1966. The success of this program proved that geostationary satellites – orbiting at an altitude of 22,000 miles above the Earth – could be used to facilitate Earth-based communication. Together, Syncom 2 and 3 provided communications access to two-thirds of the earth’s surface.

Prior to the Syncom launches, all communication satellites were low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites – orbiting at roughly 1,200 miles. LEO satellites orbit the Earth more than eleven times a day – meaning the satellite is always in motion across the sky relative to an observer on Earth. The ground station required to communicate with the moving satellites required swiveling antennas and expensive tracking computers to maintain contact.

The Syncom satellites – orbiting 22,000 miles above the earth’s equator – were geostationary – meaning they had the same orbital period as the earth’s rotation. The result is that the satellite remains in a fixed position relative to an observer on Earth. This vastly simplified the functionality of the ground station, as it no longer had to track a moving satellite. These advancements transformed communications, television broadcasting, and even weather forecasting.

Syncom 2 was launched in July 1963 and successfully proved the concept. Later that year, President Kennedy used the system to telephone the Nigerian Prime Minister – the first call between heads of state to use satellite relay. Syncom 3, launched the next year, was used to send televised images of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic games back to American viewers watching at home. A new age had begun.

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