Collaborate Disseminate
There was even a day not too long ago when printers appeared to be going the way of the dodo; remember the “paperless office” craze? But then, printer manufacturers invented …read more Continue reading A Look Inside the Space Shuttle’s First Printer
The MIRA I, from German aerospace startup Polaris Raumflugzeuge, was traveling at approximately 105 mph (169 km/h) during takeoff when a “landing gear steering reaction” plus a side wind caused a “hard landing event,” rendering the space plane inoperab… Continue reading Groundbreaking spaceplane crashes before world-first aerospike rocket test
When SpaceX first showed off the thermal tiles on its Starship spacecraft that should keep it safe when re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere towards the loving embrace of the chopsticks on …read more Continue reading How Different are SpaceX Thermal Tiles From the Space Shuttle’s?
Things may not have gone as planned last week for the flying cellphone on Mars, but just because Ingenuity‘s flying career is over doesn’t mean there’s no more work to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 4, 2024
2023 turned out to be a busy year in space and the general vicinity. New Atlas looks back at everything from rocket launches and cosmic tsunamis to asteroid samples and the latest astronaut fashions.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: best-of… Continue reading The Year in Space 2023
The Space Shuttle has often been called the most complex pieces of machinery ever built, an underhanded complement if there ever was one. But it’s a claim not strictly limited …read more Continue reading That Time NASA Built a Tiny Tank to Pop Shuttle Tires
YouTube channel “Hazegrayart” has created more than 100 beautifully-rendered videos imagining the launch or operation of some of the weirdest aircraft and spacecraft ever proposed in reality or science fiction.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTa… Continue reading Gorgeous video imagines doomed Soviet-era hydrofoiling shuttle launch
A couple of weeks ago, we noted with interest that the space shuttle Endeavour (OV85) would be set up as a full-stack launch configuration display, complete with external fuel tank …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 30, 2023
Last week, we noted an attempt to fix a hardware problem with software, which backfired pretty dramatically for Ford when they tried to counter the tendency for driveshafts to fall …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 16, 2023
[T-Zero Systems] has been working on his model Falcon 9 rocket for a while now. It’s an impressive model, complete with thrust vectoring, a microcontroller which follows a predetermined flight …read more Continue reading Mini Falcon 9 Uses NASA Software