Kevin Knuth
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The app we were using to track satellites didn't take into account daylight savings time.
A stupid mistake, right, that we shouldn't have made.
But this is your first time doing this sort of thing.
And I remember telling Matthew on our way out.
And I remember telling Matthew on the airplane, you know, we were both excited.
Oh, this is going to be so much fun.
Think, imagine what we can see.
And I said, yeah, but the problem is we're just up.
What we're probably going to learn is what not to do.
And that's really what happened that first mission.
We learned how not to do it.
But Matthew is the one who figured out it was the space station.
He put it all together, and he actually took the pixel size on the camera, and then, knowing the altitude of the space station, figured out how big the space station should be, and he was within one foot of the size of the space station.
It's really a nice analysis he does.
He put it in the appendix, and...
And, yeah, something to be proud of.
The fact that, yeah, we identified it to be the space station and actually proved it right.
So that's cool.
Another event that happened was these โ one of the FLIR cameras was showing these objects dropping into the sea.
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