Collaborate Disseminate
The Hubble Space Telescope’s remarkably long service life and its string of astonishing contributions to astronomy belie its troubled history. Long before its launch into low Earth orbit in 1990, …read more Continue reading The Trouble with Hubble: Payload Computer Glitch Stops Science at the Space Observatory
China’s space program has big goals and is already starting to achieve them. Recently, the China National Space Administration has landed its first rover on Mars, and begun to explore …read more Continue reading China’s Mars Rover Goes Exploring
There was a time when a new version of Windows was a really big deal, such the launch of Windows 95 for which the tones of the Rolling Stones’ Start …read more Continue reading The Great Windows 11 Computer Extinction Experiment
Astronauts are currently installing the first of six new solar arrays on the International Space Station (ISS), in a bid to bolster the reduced power generation capability of the original …read more Continue reading ISS Gets Roll Out Solar Panels in Post-Shuttle Fix
Glass is one of humanity’s oldest materials, and it is still used widely for everything from drinking vessels and packaging to optics and communications. Unfortunately, the methods for working with …read more Continue reading Injection-Molded Glass Breakthrough Shatters Ceiling of Work Methods
As nation states grapple with the spectre of environmental and economic losses due to climate change, we’ve seen an ever greater push towards renewable energy sources to replace heavier polluters …read more Continue reading Electric Vehicles Could Be The Grid Storage Solution We’ve Been Dreaming Of
We’ve had nuclear fission reactors in operation all over the world for ages, but nuclear fusion always seems to be a decade or two away. While one cannot predict when …read more Continue reading Fueling Up For Fusion: MAST’s Super-X, JET’s Deuterium-Tritium Experiments For ITER, And More
To hear founder Richard Branson tell it, the first operational flight of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo has been 18 months out since at least 2008. But a series of delays, technical …read more Continue reading Virgin Galactic’s Long Road to Commercial Spaceflight
Some friends of mine are designing a new board around the STM32F103 microcontroller, the commodity ARM chip that you’ll find in numerous projects and on plenty of development boards. When …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: How Is The Chip Shortage Affecting You?
It’s no secret that Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has lost some of its appeal in recent years. These days there’s plenty of free chat platforms boasting slick web interfaces and …read more Continue reading Freenode Debacle Prompts Staff Exodus, New Network