Fly Over Mars and Into the Weekend
Like a majestic alien eagle. Continue reading Fly Over Mars and Into the Weekend
Tag Archives: Spacecraft
RainCube Spreads Its Umbrella
There are times when a mechanism comes to your attention that you have to watch time and time again, to study its intricacies and marvel at the skill of its designer. Sometimes it can be a complex mechanism such as a musical automaton or a mechanical loom, but other times it can be a device whose apparent simplicity hides its underlying cleverness. Such a moment came for us today, and it’s one we have to share with you.
RainCube is a satellite, as its name suggests in the CubeSat form factor and carrying radar instruments to study Earthly precipitation. One …read more
Ruggedizing A Cheap Camera For Spacecraft Testing
Name the countries that house a manned space program. In order of arrival in space, USSR/Russian Federation, United States of America, People’s Republic of China. And maybe one day, Denmark. OK, not the Danish government. But that doesn’t stop the country having a manned space program, in the form of Copenhagen Suborbitals. As the tagline on their website has it: “We’re 50 geeks building and flying our own rockets. One of us will fly into space“. If that doesn’t catch the attention of Hackaday readers, nothing will.
For their rocket testing they need a lot of video feeds, …read more
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China’s ‘Jade Rabbit’ Rover Is Dead, and This Time It Probably Won’t Come Back
Farewell, Yutu, you reached for the Moon. Continue reading China’s ‘Jade Rabbit’ Rover Is Dead, and This Time It Probably Won’t Come Back
We’ll Never Hear From the Philae Comet Lander Again, Sob
In space, no one can hear you scream. Continue reading We’ll Never Hear From the Philae Comet Lander Again, Sob