Researchers may move satalites with magnets

[Bajantechnician]

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/NASA-May-Move-Microsatellites-Magnetically-82484.html

(cubesats = satellites)

@LinusTech

 

edit/ oh yeah, did i mention it would be in space?

edit// QUOTE "NASA has been seeking to create a magnetic tether that can be used to couple and uncouple microsatellites called "CubeSats."

I personally believe this would be a great way to replace our almost "dead" (brink of being overloaded) satalites with more "modlar" easy to modify satallites

[babadoctor]

holy shit

but wont that like erase my phone if they misfire it

*whoops! it seems we have misfired the giant magnet beam at someones 2,000 dollar computer! oh well, no big loss!*

[Bajantechnician]

holy shit

but wont that like erase my phone if they misfire it

prblably the magnets will wipe info like a magnet to the back of a credit card

[babadoctor]

prblably the magnets will wipe info like a magnet to the back of a credit card

but

dont magnets erase stuff

[Guest]

Can you fix your posts? This is not the appropriate way to post tech news and you have already done this once before.

If you want clues as to how your posts should look like, just look at any frequent poster's topic spread over the tech news section.

[Bajantechnician]

but

dont magnets erase stuff

wipe the black magnetic strip of ur credit card with a magnet, poof, ur card is de-magnetized.

[Bajantechnician]

Can you fix your posts? This is not the appropriate way to post tech news and you have already done this once before.

If you want clues as to how your posts should look like, just look at any frequent poster's topic spread over the tech news section.

kk

[escape093]

They may be able to move satellites, but magnets, how do they work?

[Ohlyver]

Well, satellites such as Hubble(im wrong, Hubble uses reaction wheel) already moves from magnets to change orientation using electromagnet positioned in 3 different ways normally and actuating some of those electromagnet cause the satellite to tilt in a way that the onboard magnet tries to align with the earth's magnetic field

[DigitalHermit]

so... tractor beams?

 

sounds like tractor beams to me...

[CtW]

[Trik'Stari]

Good luck penetrating my tinfoil hat, bastards.

[GoldSrc]

Well, satellites such as Hubble already moves from magnets to change orientation using electromagnet positioned in 3 different ways normally and actuating some of those electromagnet cause the satellite to tilt in a way that the onboard magnet tries to align with the earth's magnetic field

Hubble uses reaction wheels to move.

 

This one is a pretty cool example

[Ohlyver]

Hubble uses reaction wheels to move.

 

 

This one is a pretty cool example

 

oops... i mixed up satelites ,   but i took my infos from this video : 

[Bouzoo]

So... why is Linus tagged in the post?

[Richard Burton]

This article has been taken way out of context. They want to join and manipulate CubeSat's. Which are in very close orbits to each other, using magnets in each of them. There is no giant magnet on earth that will be used to manipulate the satellites. The current most powerful magnet on Earth is in the "Maglab" in the US, when turned on its effect can't be measured a kilometer away. Magnetic fields follow an inverse square law, this simply states that if you are twice as far away from a magnet, its effect is 1/4, three times as far, 1/9. 

[Bajantechnician]

This article has been taken way out of context. They want to join and manipulate CubeSat's. Which are in very close orbits to each other, using magnets in each of them. There is no giant magnet on earth that will be used to manipulate the satellites. The current most powerful magnet on Earth is in the "Maglab" in the US, when turned on its effect can't be measured a kilometer away. Magnetic fields follow an inverse square law, this simply states that if you are twice as far away from a magnet, its effect is 1/4, three times as far, 1/9. 

so the mangets are mounted on EACH satalite, and they are using the satalites to minipulate the ones next to it?

[Ohlyver]

so the mangets are mounted on EACH satalite, and they are using the satalites to minipulate the ones next to it?

Yeah, in my understanding, the only giant magnet they might use is the earth's magnetic field itself

[Bajantechnician]

This article has been taken way out of context. They want to join and manipulate CubeSat's. Which are in very close orbits to each other, using magnets in each of them. There is no giant magnet on earth that will be used to manipulate the satellites. The current most powerful magnet on Earth is in the "Maglab" in the US, when turned on its effect can't be measured a kilometer away. Magnetic fields follow an inverse square law, this simply states that if you are twice as far away from a magnet, its effect is 1/4, three times as far, 1/9. 

because C E N S O R E D

[Bajantechnician]

Yeah, in my understanding, the only giant magnet they might use is the earth's magnetic field itself

ahhhh, if a sun flair doesnt destroy it first?

lol