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Space.... the next frontier

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something "fun" to take a look at shortly when I get some time https://www.orekit.org/ https://gitlab.orekit.org/orekit/orekit " No-one can hear you scream " I was just reading this article:  https://spectrum.ieee.org/mapping-unchartered-waters and it got me to wondering, if the process of 3D underwater mapping can be used in space? Now, there will be a few of you, crunching your foreheads and squinting your eyes and saying, "But Tony, space is a vacuum, how would that work?...".  Well, who says it is a vacuum?  Have you been there to check? are you not thinking of the Hollywood 007 movie where they show the pssshhh pssshhh device that use a little jet of air to move astronauts around in space - please, point me to them... actually thinking about it, you could use airjets in similar ways to how you would in a pond or lake of water - although I do not believe they use oxygen, but nitrogen as explained here, they were called MMUs and were used once in 198...