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After almost five decades sailing through space, NASA is trying to squeeze a few more years out of the venerable Voyager 1 deep space probe by swapping a wonky thruster system for a disused secondary one to ensure the craft can keep its radio antenna p… Continue reading NASA coaxes Voyager 1’s thrusters back to life
A somewhat scorched Chang’e-6 return craft landed in Inner Mongolia yesterday, bringing with it the first rock and dust samples from the far side of the Moon – and hopes of unlocking some lunar secrets.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Chin… Continue reading China first to haul back rocks from the far side of the Moon
Reaching orbit around Earth is an incredibly difficult feat. It’s a common misconception that getting into orbit just involves getting very high above the ground — the real trick is …read more Continue reading Single-Stage-to-Orbit: The Launch Technology We Wish Was Real
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, farther away than the Sun, has sent data through a laser over a record-breaking distance, and done so even faster than expected.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: NASA, Communications, Communicate, Laser, Light, Dat… Continue reading Deep-space lasers smash data speed records over interplanetary distances
Rockets being passé, China is working on using an electromagnetic railgun to launch crewed spacecraft the size of a Boeing 737, weighing 50 tonnes, into orbit. This remarkably ambitious project is even more ambitious than it seems at first glance.Conti… Continue reading China is building a railgun that can hurl crewed spacecraft into orbit
Third time’s the charm! SpaceX’s Starship roared into orbit today from the company’s Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas. Larger and more powerful than the venerable Saturn V, the giant rocket lifted off into the history books at 8:25 am CDT.Continue Readi… Continue reading Starship successfully makes orbit – but the FAA has grounded it anyway
As the first part of a series, [George Emad] takes us through a few examples of the Linux operating system being used in spacecraft. These range from SpaceX’s Dragon capsule …read more Continue reading The Usage Of Embedded Linux In Spacecraft
NASA engineers are working to correct a new fault in one of the computers aboard the Voyager 1 deep space probe that is preventing the 46-year-old spacecraft from transmitting any scientific or engineering data back to Mission Control on Earth.Continue… Continue reading Voyager 1 suffers glitch keeping it from transmitting data
Sierra Space has rolled out its first Dream Chaser spaceplane, called “Tenacity,” that will be used to ferry cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS) after it is shipped to NASA’s Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility for environmental testing… Continue reading Sierra Space’s first spaceplane capable of visiting the ISS rolls out
The second of three major solar eclipses in a mere six-year period swept across the United States last week. We managed to catch the first one back in 2017, and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 22, 2023