NASA’s space-based laser network works
Published in Network
Thursday, 23 November 2023 11:39

NASA’s space-based laser network works


Making the network go "pew pew" 

NASA picked up a laser signal fired from an instrument that launched with the Psyche spacecraft, which is currently more than 16 million kilometres from Earth and heading toward a mysterious metal asteroid.

JPL creates a library for safe documents project
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Parsons would be pleased

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which occultist Aleister Crowley follower Jack Parsons founded, has created the largest open-source archive of PDFs as part of DARPA's Safe Documents programme.

Japanese building wooden satellite
Published in Transportation
Monday, 05 June 2023 12:06

Japanese building wooden satellite


Just as good as metal

The Japanese space agency (JAXA) and NASA plan to launch a satellite made of wood in 2024. 

Japanese moon spaceship software confused by crater
Published in Transportation


Apparently it did not expect them on the moon

A post-mortem into the crash of the first private spaceship to land on the moon has found that the software was to blame.

Lost, internet down, blame the Sun
Published in Network
Friday, 31 March 2023 12:26

Lost, internet down, blame the Sun


Holy sun Batman

If your Internet and phone service is pants today it might have something to do with a triangular-shaped dark gap in the sun's surface that's 20 times larger than Earth.

NASA comes up with solid-state batteries
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Monday, 17 October 2022 11:20

NASA comes up with solid-state batteries


This week's better battery which will never see the light of day

NASA boffins have been working on advanced solid-state batteries that can power electric aircraft.

Shaun the Sheep to travel on NASA's Artemis 1
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One small step for Ram 

Shaun, the title character from the animated television series "Shaun the Sheep", is going into space.

NASA plans to outsource its aging space telecoms
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Space is Neo-liberalism's final frontier 


Decades after the world worked out that the private sector was just as clueless at running business as governments, the US government has worked out a way of making some more rich people even richer by outsourcing of NASA's ageing space telecoms constellation.

NASA worried about SpaceX's Starlink plans
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Thursday, 10 February 2022 13:47

NASA worried about SpaceX's Starlink plans


30,000 satellites is getting silly

NASA has raised concerns about SpaceX's plan to deploy about 30,000 satellites for its Starlink.

China’s moon plans making the NASA look a bit silly
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Space travel is really for socialism

"China has formally approved three missions targeting the south pole of the moon, with the first to launch around 2024. each with different goals and an array of spacecraft.