Anybody seen the Mayak satellite yet?

I'm a little busy making IQ threads at the moment.

Why?

>>9047598
Just seeing if it's reflector deployed properly

>>9047593
when do the reflectors deploy?

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>>9047593
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=42830

That's the live tracking for the orbit.

>>9047593
It won't be seen by a naked eye. The reflector is way too small. They got their math completely wrong

>>9047856
Source?

>>9047593
Tried seeing it the other night, nothing.
>>9047856
Their reflector is fucking huge and designed to actually reflect light. It should be bigger than the antennas on iridium sats.

>>9048610
>>9048712
https://geektimes.ru/post/270570/#comment_9016730
They fucked up their basic math. (user named 4110 below is the author)

It's smaller than old Iridiums and is flying too high. Okay you probably can barely see it with a naked eye if you know where to look and how to observe it, but it won't be "as bright as the moon" as they advertised, or some crap like that. Also, they have no telemetry, no control system, no anything - just a simlple passive self-deploying reflector target.

People told them many times that it will be no different than most satellites, including many astronomers, but they dismissed everything and continued to pitch their -10 mag bullshit.

http://www.astronomy.ru/forum/index.php/topic,139465.440.html
even amateur and professional astronomers have difficulties to observe it with a naked eye, it's not even clear if it's deployed.

It's just another hipster crowdsourced half-scam with no connection to reality, nothing to see here.

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Here's how they pitched it.

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>>9048737
here's how it actually looks like

>>9048723
Kek, makes sense why Heavens-above is only saying it's a magnitude -1
>>9048738
That hair thin trace. Well memed.

>>9048723
>>9048737
>>9048738
>>9048741
Just a gigantic waste of money.
Unless, of course, it was actually designed to launder the money paid to them for hacking the U.S. election.

>>9048737
>>9048738
how does shit like this happen?
especially if other professionals tried to say something, how can you fuck up this badly?

We do have the math and astronomy knowledge to do this right dont we?

>>9048748
>Just a gigantic waste of money.
Well not exactly gigantic, it was about $80K total, including $35K of crowdfunding. It's just an amateur 1U balloon cubesat.

>>9048750
>how does shit like this happen?
It's an average crowdfunding campaign, kek.

>>9047593
What was the supposed purpose? Orbit is full of satellites that are visible to the naked eye, there is no need for another if the only point was to be visible.

Poccия cильнaя

>>9048723
>https://geektimes.ru/post/270570/#comment_9016730

Interesting, thanks for posting this. I do not speak Russian, so had to rely on a translation site, so likely missed some of it. But still, interesting -- they seemed totally unable t comprehend that their math was way off, and that they might have some responsibility to honestly describe the effect of what they wanted to launch to investors.

I wonder if some sort of tighter controls of what sort of nonsense people send into orbit is worth putting in place. This one sounds like it will deorbit quickly (unless they fucked up THAT math, too) but who knows what other stupid shit some crowd-funded hoax might put up.

>>9048738
Looks like a regular satellite. When I was a child in the 1980s, I lived on a farm in BFE. I'd lay out in the field and watch satellites pass by; though they were not streaks. Instead they looked like a bright point moving slowly. I didn't know what they were at the time. It was really neat. Now, light pollution and computer eyesight have taken that away.

Easy come easy go

Yeah, ground reports aren't promising

Just saw it about an hour ago Way less bright than predicted. Heavens above pegged it at -1.0, but it was certainly much less than that. Saw it pass by Cassiopia and I could barely see it in a somewhat light polluted suburban setting

Nah

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I want to believe

>>9049367
it's supposed to shine brighter than anything else in the sky and make the people look upwards

>>9049453
> I wonder if some sort of tighter controls of what sort of nonsense people send into orbit is worth putting in place.
No amount of regulation will stop fools from being foolish. In this case, too much unrelated regulations had to click at the same time, supposing they even existed at all.

> This one sounds like it will deorbit quickly (unless they fucked up THAT math, too) but who knows what other stupid shit some crowd-funded hoax might put up.
There's no point stopping dumb people from wasting their money. This particular cubesat wasn't dangerous at all, of course they have to pass a mandatory assessment and all sorts of testing, to be sure that some student-made satellite won't crash the rocket or blow up in orbit.

>>9049453
afaik the rules for what you can and cannot bring on a cubesat are already pretty strict

you can't bring a chemical rocket engine or anything that can burn, for one

>taking a PR stunt seriously

>>9052691
>>9053423
What about the "we don't actually need lots more fucking trash in orbit, so cubesats that have no worthwhile purpose or that are too poorly designed to achieve that purpose (this one looks like it would have failed both tests) stay on the ground.

>>9052657
But the sky is thick with satellites, many of which are naked-eye objects Not sure why THIS one was supposed to make a bigger splash.

They KNEW it was not going to be as bright as they hoped, it was explained to them in a conversational series of posts on a site linked above.

>>9053463
Cubesats have very strict debris regulations and typically deorbit after a few months. One with such a large cross section is going to come down quicker, even at 600km starting altitude.