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It’s been a while since we’ve dunked on an autonomous taxi foul-up, mainly because it seemed for a while there that most of the companies field testing driverless ride-sharing services …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 13, 2025
The tech companies are warring for supremacy as they seek to eliminate cell phone dead spots and claim the most satellite airwaves. Continue reading Apple vs. Starlink: The Tech Feud That Could Shape the Next Frontier of Mobile Service
Project Kuiper will eventually be a constellation of 3,200 satellites. The first launch is planned for April 9. Continue reading New Competitor of Elon Musk’s Starlink: Amazon’s Project Kuiper Internet Satellite Initiative Launches This Month
The hits just keep coming for the International Space Station (ISS), literally in the case of a resupply mission scheduled for June that is now scrubbed thanks to a heavy …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 30, 2025
The hits just keep coming for the International Space Station (ISS), literally in the case of a resupply mission scheduled for June that is now scrubbed thanks to a heavy …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 30, 2025
It’s been a busy week in space news, and very little of it was good. We’ll start with the one winner of the week, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 9, 2025
At 49, Branden Spikes isn’t just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla and SpaceX, Spikes is also among Musk’s most loyal employees. Here’s a closer look at this trusted Musk lieutenant, whose Russian ex-wife was once married to Elon’s cousin. Continue reading Who is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes?
This week, we witnessed a couple of space oopsies as both Starship and New Glenn suffered in-flight mishaps on the same day. SpaceX’s Starship was the more spectacular, with the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 19, 2025
SpaceX’s Starship is the most powerful launch system ever built, dwarfing even the mighty Saturn V both in terms of mass and total thrust. The scale of the vehicle is …read more Continue reading Measuring the Mighty Roar of SpaceX’s Starship Rocket
Flight 6 of SpaceX’s giant Starship is scheduled to fly no earlier than Monday, November 18, 2024. If there are no delays, the world’s largest rocket ever to fly will lift off at 4:00 pm CST from the company’s Texas Starbase. Here’s how to watch.Contin… Continue reading First SpaceX Starship launch since ‘chopsticks’ catch: How to watch