• Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    You’d think we have ion thrusters or anti gravity devices with the money we’ve tossed at this thing. Hell we’d probably have a full blown moon base. But nope just another tribute to enshittification crap-it-all-ism. :inshallah-script:

    Probably a windows update rendering the plane a brick midflight lol.

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        Not in interplanetary probes afaik, NASA tested them successfully in 1964, and Soviets used few hundreds of them for satellite stabilisation since 70’s. Tiangong station also use them for stabilisation.

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        Yes, a few. Dawn, Deep Space 1, BepiColumbo, and a few others.