where space 'begins' is a really fuzzy line

Created its own little radiation belt

Where does it kinda begin then?

https://history.nasa.gov/conghand/nuclear.htm

idk

Technically we’re in space rn

somewhere

@

Just in a very safe part of space

@Hammond_of_Texas thank you for the link

Huh

Yeah it's a .gov nasa link

The Brits put grenade launchers on their "space" Craft

Why isn't it doin the thing

You know where it shows a link summary or let's you play a video on discord as apposed to going to the site

There’s nuclear reactors just floating around in space too

Failed Soviet designs

At least I think

There's quite a few nuclear reactors in the solar system

@Hammond_of_Texas because you suck

Soviets just didnt give a toss when it came to nuclear stuff like

Obviously lol

vat is safety Dimitry?

They were poorly designed satellites using these small fission reactors that invariably melted down, so they just jettisoned the reactor part into higher orbit.

"the explosions from these grenades could be picked up by equipment on the ground which then allowed scientists to estimate the average density and temperature of the air at the heights the rocket managed to reach."

VADIM! No need to make missiles accurate just make boom bigger

That’s a pretty cool experiment

See who needs a functional design when you just keep adding thrusters to it

Blyat

me on ksp^

Back during the dust bowl people would set off missiles in the sky to try and seed rain clouds

Ive seen one of those

At a little local museum in Oklahoma

Their reasoning being “it always rains after major battles”

Unsurprisingly it went nowhere

Some county museum that probably gets a single visitor a month

I think it was just con artists trying to make easy dosh during the depression

How many dosh

Basically farmers paying them to set off fireworks in their back yard

Failed soviet rocket

Had thirty engine on the first stage