Collaborate Disseminate
There are a number of layers that need to be secured. There’s the network layer, for which we have Tor and other anonymizing applications and the physical layer. I don’t see how one can be concerned with network security, but… Continue reading What’s the most anonymous way of severing IP from actual physical location?
The entirety of Silicon Valley is predicated on the ability to ‘move fast and break laws’. Have an idea for a scooter startup? No problem, just throw a bunch of scooters on the curb, littering and e-waste laws be damned. Earlier this year, Swarm Technologies launched four rogue satellites on an Indian rocket. All commercial satellite launches by US companies are regulated by the FCC, and Swarm just decided not to tell the FCC. This was the first unauthorized satellite launch ever. Now, Swarm has been fined $900k. Now that we know the cost of launching unauthorized satellites, so if …read more
Imagine if you bought a new car but they keys were not going to be shipped to you until a few years later. That’s analogous to the situation the U.S. Air Force finds itself in. The first GPS III satellite is finally ready to launch today, December 18, 2018 — a little over 2 years beyond the original schedule. However, most of the unique GPS III features won’t be available until at least 2022, according to a 2017 Government Accounting Office (GAO) report to Congress.
GPS III is a project to launch 32 new satellites that will — for military …read more
Continue reading GPS III Launching Today But You Can’t Use it Until 2022
An experimental technique for measuring potent methane emissions in the Arctic proved successful. Continue reading Scientists Used Satellites to Spot Arctic Methane From Space
Here’s an interesting thought: it’s possible to build a cubesat for perhaps ten thousand dollars, and hitch a ride on a launch for free thanks to a NASA outreach program. Tracking that satellite along its entire orbit would require dozens or hundreds of ground stations, all equipped with antennas and a connection to the Internet. Getting your data down from a cubesat actually costs more than building a satellite.
This is the observation someone at Amazon must have made. They’ve developed the AWS Ground Station, a system designed to downlink data from cubesats and other satellites across an entire orbit. …read more
Continue reading Amazon Creates Distributed Satellite Ground Stations
“These gravity images are revolutionizing our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth—Antarctica.” Continue reading Data From a Dead Satellite Reveals Lost Continents Under Antarctica
We love seeing hardware and software from bygone eras getting a new lease on life through modern hacks, as longtime readers can surely attest to. Why leave this stuff to rot in a closet somewhere when it can be pushed into service today? Granted it might not always be the most efficient way to accomplish a task in the 21st century, but at least you’ll net some precious Internet Points for originality.
As a perfect example, take a look at this project which lets you read Slack messages through a Super Nintendo game. If your first thought was that such …read more
Whilst modern technology relies heavily on satellites, it’s easy to forget they’re there; after all, it’s hard to comprehend mostly-invisible lumps of high-density tech whizzing around above you at ludicrous speeds. Of course, it’s not hard to comprehend if you’ve built a real-time satellite tracker which displays exactly what’s in orbit above your head at any given time. [Paul Klinger]’s creation shows the position of satellites passing through a cylinder of 200 km radius above the tracker.
Each layer of LEDs represents a specific band of altitude, whilst the colour of the LEDs and text on the screen represent the …read more
Continue reading Real Time Satellite Tracker Shows You What’s Going Over Your Head
The city of Chengdu could be illuminated by a fake moon as early as 2020. Continue reading A Chinese City Wants to Replace Streetlights With an Artificial Moon
The satellite laser communication revolution is just around the corner, but it has one especially obstinate foe—overcast weather. Continue reading Scientists Want to Punch Holes in Clouds With Ultra-Hot Lasers from Space