sorry if this has been answered somewhere, i dont keep up and am curious
are there plans to add USSR style pods like the vostok capsule? I think itd be really cool, it was the very first manned ship in space after all!
ive had an epiphany. theyve been making human neuron computers, basically a bunch of cells in a dish that can be trained to do stuff, much like ai models.
the only issue is that theyre physical cells, so you cant copy paste whatever you "code" on them like you can with gpus, so thyere probably useless for actually training ai models.
but I think theyre perfect for space probe hardware.
these things use 200x less energy than computers, and could allow for a lot more complex problem solving much like ai. on missions where the lag in communication can be upwards of an hour think theyre a perfect use case.
they would probably even be more resistant to radiation, though idk.
Forgive me i dont know the actual name, i mean the thrusters on satelites that use a ton of electricity and use like xenon or something to do super efficient propulsion.
Ive been fascinated by the problem of an astronaut drifting away in space with no way to get back. Even though you have chemical energy in your body, you have no way to use it to propulsion yourself anywhere, ideally back to your spacecraft.
What if you could have a really small ion thruster with a little bit of fuel which you could crank to create propulsion? Is this feasible? Am i underestimating the size of such engines, or the amount of thrust they output? I know gasseous fuel, rcs and whatnot is probably way more practicle but it just doesnt have enough fuel for my liking idk, like you spend it all amd youre screwed afterwards