Collaborate Disseminate
In planetary exploration circles, Mars has quite a bad reputation. The Red Planet has a habit of eating spacecraft sent there to explore it, to the degree that nearly half …read more Continue reading Mothballing Rosalind: How to Put a Space Mission in Storage
With the news here in Europe full of the effect of the war in Ukraine on gas supplies and consequently, prices, there it was on the radio news: a unit …read more Continue reading Just What On Earth Is A Therm?
Although every electrical grid begins with the production of electricity, there are times when storing this power in some form instead of using it immediately is highly convenient. Today’s battery-powered …read more Continue reading Grid-Level Energy Storage And The Challenge Of Storing Energy Efficiently
As the world begins to slowly pull itself out of the economic effects of the pandemic, there’s one story that has been on our minds for the past couple of …read more Continue reading Hackaday Report: Will 2022 Bring A New Dawn For The Chip Shortage?
Back in the day, just about everything that used a battery had a hatch or a hutch that you could open to pull it out and replace it if need …read more Continue reading Replaceable Batteries Are Coming Back To Phones If The EU Gets Its Way
It’s often said that the wheels of government turn slowly, and perhaps nowhere is this on better display than at NASA. While it seems like every week we hear about …read more Continue reading NASA Continues Slow And Steady Pace Towards Moon
The International Space Station was built not only in the name of science and exploration, but as a symbol of unity. Five space agencies, some representing countries who had been …read more Continue reading One Giant Leap (Backwards) for Humankind: What the Russia-Ukraine War Means for the ISS
Early in the morning of February 24th, Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at California’s Middlebury Institute of International Studies watched Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold in realtime with troop movements …read more Continue reading The Invisible Battlefields of the Russia-Ukraine War
We’ve all heard it said, and it bears repeating: getting to space is hard. But it actually gets even harder the smaller your booster is. That’s because the structure, engines, …read more Continue reading Astra’s Frugal Design Leads To Latest Unusual Failure
Since NASA’s Mariner spacecraft made the first up-close observations of Mars in 1964, humanity has lobbed a long line of orbiters, landers, and rovers towards the Red Planet. Of course, …read more Continue reading NASA Taps Lockheed to Bring Back a Piece of Mars