Collaborate Disseminate
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun on Christmas Eve, flying within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface and entering its atmosphere for the first time.
The spacecraft, which travels at speeds up to 430,000 miles… Continue reading We’re About To Fly a Spacecraft Into the Sun For the First Time
If you’re new to the world of circular math, you might be content with referring to pi as 3.14. If you’re getting a little more busy with geometry, science, or …read more Continue reading Why NASA Only Needs Pi To So Many Decimal Places
It looks like we won’t have Cruise to kick around in this space anymore with the news that General Motors is pulling the plug on its woe-beset robotaxi project. Cruise, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 15, 2024
America’s next president “announced Wednesday he has selected Jared Isaacman, a billionaire businessman and space enthusiast who twice flew to orbit with SpaceX, to become the next NASA administrator,” reports Ars Technica:
In a post on X, Isaacman s… Continue reading America’s Next NASA Administrator May Be Former SpaceX Astronaut Jared Isaacman
Earlier this year [Skyhawkson] got ahold of a Apollo-era printed circuit board which he believes was used in a NASA test stand. He took high quality photos of both sides …read more Continue reading Apollo-era PCB Reverse Engineering to KiCad
NASA hopes to stimulate in-space manufacturing through a multi-year “laser beam welding collaboration” with Ohio State University. The project “seeks to understand the physical processes of welding on the lunar surface,” according to NASA.gov, “such as… Continue reading NASA Investigates Laser-Beam Welding in a Vacuum for In-Space Manufacturing
This week Discover magazine looks at evidence — both old and new — for a ninth planet in our solar system:
“Orbits of the most distant small bodies — comets or asteroids — seem to be clustered on one half or one side of the sol… Continue reading Is There New Evidence for a 9th Planet – Planet X?
Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft …read more Continue reading Supercon 2023: Restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer
Somewhere off in interstellar space, 15.4 billion miles away from Earth, NASA’s 47-year-old Voyager “recently went quiet,” reports Mashable.
The probe “shut off its main radio transmitter for communicating with mission control…”
Voyager’s problem be… Continue reading After Silence, NASA’s Voyager Finally Phones Home – With a Device Unused Since 1981
We hate to admit it, but whenever we see an article about either Voyager spacecraft, our thoughts immediately turn to worst-case scenarios. One of these days, we’ll be forced to …read more Continue reading Voyager 1 Fault Forces Switch to S-Band