Hackaday Links: July 18, 2021

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Tell the world that something is in short supply, and you can bet that people will start reacting to that news in the ways that make the most sense to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 18, 2021

Hackaday Links: May 30, 2021

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That collective “Phew!” you heard this week was probably everyone on the Mars Ingenuity helicopter team letting out a sigh of relief while watching telemetry from the sixth and somewhat …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 30, 2021

The Wright Stuff: First Powered Flight on Mars Is a Success

When you stop to think about the history of flight, it really is amazing that the first successful flight the Wright brothers made on a North Carolina beach to Neil …read more Continue reading The Wright Stuff: First Powered Flight on Mars Is a Success

Spacing Out: StarShip Explodes (Again), Passenger Space Flight, Space Bugs, Astronaut Bone, and Martian Water

This time I promise I only have a couple of stories from Elon Musk’s company. SpaceX’s latest Starship test launch ended in another explosion, proving that space hardware remains hard …read more Continue reading Spacing Out: StarShip Explodes (Again), Passenger Space Flight, Space Bugs, Astronaut Bone, and Martian Water

Spacing Out: Launch Successes And Failures, Next Stop Mars, Rocket Catching, & Space Stations

As large sections of the globe have seen themselves plunged into further resurgences of the pandemic over the past few weeks there has been no let-up in the world of space exploration even for the Christmas holidays, so here we are with another Spacing Out column in which we take …read more

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