Hackaday Links: March 9, 2025
It’s been a busy week in space news, and very little of it was good. We’ll start with the one winner of the week, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 9, 2025
Category Archives: RUD
Hackaday Links: April 23, 2023
Mark it on your calendars, folks — this is the week that the term RUD has entered the public lexicon. Sure, most of our community already knows the acronym for …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 23, 2023
Saving Martian Colonists Using Table Salt And Rocket Science
Imagine for a moment that you are a member of an early Mars colony. You’re stranded, and the only way to get a message home is to launch a radio …read more Continue reading Saving Martian Colonists Using Table Salt And Rocket Science
Fail Of The Week (in 1996): The 7 Billion Dollar Overflow
The year was 1996, the European Space agency was poised for commercial supremacy in space. Their new Ariane 5 Rocket could launch two three-ton satellites into space. It had more power than anything that had come before.
The rocket rose up towards the heavens on a pillar of flame, carrying four very expensive and very uninsured satellites. Thirty-seven seconds later it self destructed. Seven billion dollars of RUD rained down on the local beaches near the Guiana Space Centre in Southern America. A video of the failed launch is after the break.
The cause of all this was a single …read more
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