Collaborate Disseminate
When the Space Race kicked off in earnest in the 1950s, in some ways it was hard to pin down where sci-fi began and reality ended. As the first artificial …read more Continue reading The Soviet Space Station Program: From Military Satellites to the ISS
After ESA’s Jupiter-bound space probe Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) launched on April 14th of this year, it initially looked as if it had squeezed out a refreshingly uneventful deployment, …read more Continue reading ESA Juice’s RIME Antenna Breaks Free After Some Jiggling and Percussive Action
Before a chip design is turned from a hardware design language (HDL) like VHDL or Verilog into physical hardware, testing and validating the design is an essential step. Yet simulating …read more Continue reading Exploiting Hardware-Level Parallelism in the Manticore Hardware-Accelerated RTL Simulator
Since the United Arab Emirates’ Hope (“Al-Amal”) orbiter made it safely into orbit around Mars on February 9, 2021, it’s been busy using its onboard instruments to measure everything it …read more Continue reading Giving a Tinge of Color to the Mars Map Courtesy of the UAE’s Hope Orbiter
With only two space stations in orbit around Earth today in the form of the International Space Station and the Chinese Tiangong (‘Sky Palace’) station, it’s easy to forget how …read more Continue reading The Forgotten Rescue of the Salyut 7 Space Station
In the world of large language models (LLM), the focus has for the longest time been on proprietary technologies from companies such as OpenAI (GPT-3 & 4, ChatGPT, etc.) as …read more Continue reading Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI
Although generally hydrogen is only mentioned within the context of transportation and energy storage, by far the most useful applications are found in industrial applications, including for the chemical industry, …read more Continue reading We Already Live in a Hydrogen Economy: Steel Production, Generator Cooling, and Welding Gas
What if you could run Mac OS on a Nintendo Wii game console? That’s probably not a thought that has occurred to many Wii owners or Mac OS users, but …read more Continue reading How To Install Mac OS on the Nintendo Wii
Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes have been operating non-stop for over 45 years, making their way from Earth to our solar system’s outer planets and …read more Continue reading NASA’s Voyager Space Probe’s Reserve Power, and the Intricacies of RTG-Based Power Systems
Given the number of spacecraft (both crewed and uncrewed) that touched down on the Moon during the Space Race it’s sometimes hard to imagine why today, with all our modern …read more Continue reading Moon Mission Failures, or Why Are Lunar Landings So Hard?