Collaborate Disseminate
Asteroids, the late-70s arcade hit, was an immensely popular game. Often those with the simplest premise, while maintaining a fun, lighthearted gameplay have the most cultural impact and longest legacy. …read more Continue reading Asteroids: Kessler Syndrome Edition
Good news, bad news for Sun watchers this week, as our star launched a solar flare even bigger than the one back in May that gave us an amazing display …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 4, 2024
A couple of weeks back we featured a story (third item) about a chunk of space jetsam that tried to peacefully return to Earth, only to find a Florida family’s …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 30, 2024
Although there is a lot of space in Earth orbit, there are also some seriously big man-made objects in those orbits, some of which have been there for decades. As …read more Continue reading Astroscale’s ADRAS-J Satellite Takes Up-Close Photo of Discarded Rocket Stage
Do humanoid robots dream of electric retirement? Who knows, but maybe we can ask Boston Dynamics’ Atlas HD, which was officially retired this week. The humanoid robot, notable for its …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 21, 2024
NASA has completed the analysis of a chunk of metal that crashed into the roof of a house in Naples, Florida, a few weeks ago. The agency says it came from a pallet of trash released from the International Space Station three years ago.Continue Reading… Continue reading Space junk that tore through Florida home was from ISS, confirms NASA
A spacecraft about the size of a gas pump is being developed for the US Space Force program to refuel orbiting satellites. The goal is to extend the lifespan of craft that have run out of juice instead of simply decommissioning them.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading Space Force orders orbital service station to revive dead satellites
Tiny bursts of electrical energy caused by collisions of objects no wider than a pencil lead could one day allow pieces of space debris smaller than one millimeter in diameter to be tracked, reducing the danger to spacecraft in Earth orbit.Continue Rea… Continue reading Tiny sparks from collisions may enable tracking of tiny space debris
To help combat the growing problem of space debris, a CubeSat launched by EnduroSat on November 11, 2023 called Exo-0 includes a 100-g (3.5-oz) device developed by Airbus that uses the Earth’s magnetic field to prevent dead satellites from tumbling.Con… Continue reading Tiny Airbus device keeps defunct satellites from tumbling
This week, an expert on nuclear weapons stops by to discuss how we tell aliens about the dangers of nuclear waste. Continue reading CYBER: Space Junk, Nuclear Waste, AI Nukes and the Reason We’re All Still Here