Collaborate Disseminate
It barely seems like it, but it’s been a week since the 2019 Hackaday Superconference wrapped up in sunny Pasadena. It was an amazing weekend, filled with fun, food, camaraderie, and hacks galore. For all who were there, it’ll likely take quite some time before spinning down to Earth again …read more
Join us on Wednesday, October 30 at noon Pacific for the SatNOGS Update Hack Chat with Pierros Papadeas and the SatNOGS team!
Ever since the early days of the Space Race, people have been fascinated with satellites. And rightly so; the artificial moons we’ve sent into orbit are engineering marvels,
In the early days of spaceflight, when only the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union had the ability to put an object into orbit, even the most fanciful of futurists would have had a hard time believing that commercial entities would one day be launching sixty satellites …read more
Continue reading Developing Guidelines for Sustainable Spaceflight
We bought a house. We need internet for basic research, email and paying bills, but there is no internet… Even a dedicated hotspot will not give us a stable connection. We are planning to get satellite internet.
Is it safe to pay bills … Continue reading Is it safe to pay bills over satellite internet?
This year, the Air Force presented vetted hackers with a plane’s subsystem, which they duly tore up. Next year, it will be a satellite. Continue reading Air Force to offer up a satellite to hackers at Defcon 2020
The US Air Force wants to know if you can hijack control of an orbiting satellite and turn its camera from staring at Earth to point at the moon instead.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading How to get away with hacking a US satellite
For many of us, ad hoc projects end up having a certain permanence to them. Think of the number of Raspberry Pis and RTL-SDRs that are just dangling from a USB cable under a desk or stuffed behind a monitor, quietly going about their business. If it ain’t broke, don’t …read more
Continue reading Wall-Mounted Ground Station Tames Unruly SatNOGS Node
By now you’ve almost certainly heard about the recent release of a high-resolution satellite image showing the aftermath of Iran’s failed attempt to launch their Safir liquid fuel rocket. The geopolitical ramifications of Iran developing this type of ballistic missile technology is certainly a newsworthy story in its own right, …read more
Continue reading Watching the Watchers: The State of Space Surveillance
It seems as though every week we see something that clearly shows we’re living in the future. The components we routinely incorporate into our projects would have seemed like science fiction only a few short years ago, but now we buy them online and have them shipped to us for …read more
Continue reading Plasma-Powered Thrusters For Your Homebrew Satellite Needs
On the 30th August 2019, the President of the United States tweeted an image of an Iranian spaceport, making note of the recent failed Safir launch at the site. The release of such an image prompted raised eyebrows, given the high resolution of the image, and that it appeared to …read more
Continue reading Open Source Intel Helps Reveal US Spy Sat Capabilities