Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (25 Jun 2015 02:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (25 Jun 2015 05:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (25 Jun 2015 14:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 04:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 07:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Nokes (26 Jun 2015 18:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 21:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (26 Jun 2015 05:57 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 09:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (29 Jun 2015 03:50 UTC)
USSR is gone but has doctrine changed wrt their successor/s? Phil Pugliese (29 Jun 2015 14:39 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (01 Jul 2015 04:43 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Andrew Long (26 Jun 2015 15:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 20:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Tim (26 Jun 2015 09:43 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability shadow@xxxxxx (26 Jun 2015 16:11 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 20:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Ethan McKinney (26 Jun 2015 20:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability shadow@xxxxxx (29 Jun 2015 10:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (30 Jun 2015 05:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability shadow@xxxxxx (30 Jun 2015 22:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (01 Jul 2015 02:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Kurt Feltenberger (01 Jul 2015 02:38 UTC)

Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Tim 26 Jun 2015 09:43 UTC

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:15:33AM +0200, Knapp wrote:
> I would think predicted position would be a cone for a ship with a
> fast vector and a sphere for one sitting, "still".

No -- as it happens, they're the same shape.  The relative motions
available to a moving body in vacuum are identical to those of a
stationary one.

> The cone might bend or even split (more like a hole in the cone), if
> it is interacting with a gravity well.

Gravity wells have predictable effect, so over reasonably short
timescales have negligible effect on uncertainty in position.

- Tim