While everyone was glued to the U.S. and Iran contest in the Middle East, a wild Cold War-style cat and mouse game was quietly being played in the North Atlantic. In April, the UK MoD confirmed that it was involved in a month-long hunt, tracking a Russian submarine package in the GIUK Gap. We're talking at least three hulls - an Akula-class and two ultra-secret GUGI-class spy subs - most likely mapping critical deep-sea infrastructure. 1/2 🧵
@GoKineticFiber@CNET Very nice. Hey @CNET feel free to test speeds this company provides outside of an urban area. Go download a multi gig game at these speeds.
@Fury42069@GoKineticFiber Their techs come out to fix the constant issues and say “why don’t you have fiber?” Lol I usually just say I don’t know. I’ll play your silly game why don’t I have fiber.
Techs are great, their planning people suck and there’s zero transparency.
@thekookreport At the next earnings, call someone needs to ask about how our lunches are insured. Will we get compensated for both the cost of the satellite and the launch cost? That could be pretty significant
@AstroTanja@AstroBackyard You’re not wrong, glad the control room in the observatory keeps the bugs out. Need targets and don’t want to be out all night trying to double stars or variable stars. If doing variables you can submit your observations.
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This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.
The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.
There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.
That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.
📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center
Oh trust me. I know fiber isn’t available. Customer over 20 years and been hearing the fiber isn’t coming for 6 years. I enjoy being told about what everyone else is enjoying. @GoKineticFiber