Researchers Examined the Feasibility of Cleaning Orbital Junk With a Space-Based Laser Station
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The Russians And The Americans Only Want The Moon
For the generations who lived through the decades of the Space Race, the skies above were an exciting place. Every month it seemed there was a new announcement of a new mission, a Lunar landing, new pictures from a planetary probe, or fresh feats of derring-do from astronauts or cosmonauts. Space was inspiring!
As we moved through the Shuttle, Mir, and ISS eras, the fascinating work didn’t stop. The Mars rovers, the Cassini probe, the Chang-e Lunar mission, or the Hubble telescope, to name just a very few. But somehow along the way, space lost the shine for the general …read more
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So Long, Rollable Solar Array, and Thanks for All the Photons
After attempts to repack ROSA into the SpaceX Dragon capsule failed, the experiment was jettisoned. Continue reading So Long, Rollable Solar Array, and Thanks for All the Photons
So Long, Rollable Solar Array, and Thanks for All the Photons
After attempts to repack ROSA into the SpaceX Dragon capsule failed, the experiment was jettisoned. Continue reading So Long, Rollable Solar Array, and Thanks for All the Photons
Aubrie O’Rourke Trained Dolphins, Researched HIV, and Is Helping NASA Get to Mars
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Aubrie O’Rourke Trained Dolphins, Researched HIV, and Is Helping NASA Get to Mars
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Flying The First Open Source Satellite
The Libre Space Foundation is an organization dedicated to the development of libre space hardware. It was born from the SatNOGS project — the winners of the first Hackaday Prize — and now this foundation is in space. The Libre Space Foundation hitched a ride on the Orbital ATK launch yesterday, and right now their completely Open Source cube sat is on its way to the International Space Station.
The cube sat in question is UPSat, a 2U cubesat that is completely Open Source. Everything from the chassis to the firmware is completely Open, with all the source files hosted …read more
Hams in Space Part 2: The Manned Spaceflights
Whether it’s trying to make contacts across the planet with a transmitter that would have a hard time lighting an LED, or blasting signals into space and bouncing them off the moon, amateur radio operators have always been on the forefront of communications technology. As mankind took to space in the 1950s and 1960s, hams went along for the ride with the first private satellites. But as successful as the OSCAR satellites were, they were still at best only beacons or repeaters in space. What was needed was the human touch – a real live operator making contacts with people …read more
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Tune into the Space Station Livestream and Feel the Anxiety Wash Away
The chillest livestream on the Internet isn’t from Earth. Continue reading Tune into the Space Station Livestream and Feel the Anxiety Wash Away