Collaborate Disseminate
Orbital mechanics is a fun subject, as it involves a lot of seemingly empty space that’s nevertheless full of very real forces, all of which must be taken into account …read more Continue reading Lagrange Points and Why You Want to Get Stuck At Them
Asteroids, the late-70s arcade hit, was an immensely popular game. Often those with the simplest premise, while maintaining a fun, lighthearted gameplay have the most cultural impact and longest legacy. …read more Continue reading Asteroids: Kessler Syndrome Edition
A freedom of information act request unearthed emails from the Los Alamos National Lab as they struggled to balance secrecy and scientific discovery. Continue reading How Top Secret Nuke Sensor Data Confirmed the First Interstellar Object on Earth
How important is it to identify killer asteroids before they strike your planet? Ask any dinosaurs. Oh, wait… Granted you also need a way to redirect them, but interest in …read more Continue reading That’s no Asteroid…Oh, Actually It Is
It seems that the engineers of NASA’s Lucy spacecraft have some ‘splaining to do. The $981M asteroid-seeking mission launched without a hitch, but when the two solar panels unfolded, one …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 24, 2021
Most of the hacks we see around these parts have to do with taking existing components and cobbling them together in interesting new ways. It’s less often that we see existing components gutted and repurposed, but when it happens, like …read more
Continue reading Magnetic Angle Sensor Mods Make Encoder Better for Blasting
Playing Asteroids now isn’t quite what it used to be when it came out 40 years ago. At the time, the vector-scan display was part of the charm; making do with an emulator running on a traditional raster display just …read more
Continue reading Laser Galvos and an ESP32 Recreate Old-School Asteroids
We humans are good at a lot of things, but making holes in the ground has to be among our greatest achievements. We’ve gone from grubbing roots with a stick to feeding billions with immense plows pulled by powerful tractors, and from carving simple roads across the land to drilling …read more
Continue reading Extraterrestrial Excavation: Digging Holes on Other Worlds
Within a matter of months, NASA has discovered the first subglacial craters known to science. They’re both huge and relatively young. Continue reading NASA Discovers Second Crater Hidden Under Greenland’s Ice
It’s one of 19 asteroids that have been detected within Earth’s orbit. Continue reading Scientists Discover the Closest Known Asteroid to the Sun