Jonathan McDowell LeoLabs says they see hundreds of debris objects from the Starlink failure event
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Building small satellites on the tip of Africa. My other ride is a CubeSat.
Daniel EstévezNew blog post: Decoding ESCAPADE. Here I decode a recording of the ESCAPADE spacecraft that I did with an Allen Telescope Array antenna the day after they were launched. The modulation is PCM/PSK/PM with rate=1/2 Turbo code. The telemetry uses CCSDS TM frames and Space Packets. The telemetry packets contain many interesting strings with log messages, which appear to be generated by a Linux system running Rocket Lab's MAX flight software. Read more: https://destevez.net/2025/11/decoding-escapade/
Ars TechnicaHere’s the real reason Endurance sank
The ship wasn't designed to withstand the powerful ice compression forces—and Shackleton knew it
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/heres-the-real-reason-endurance-sank/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
The ship wasn't designed to withstand the powerful ice compression forces—and Shackleton knew it
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/heres-the-real-reason-endurance-sank/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Stoked! I’ll play games for merch any day 😂 Thanks @ThinkstCanary and happy 10th birthday!
Capturing the Moon: Dragonfly Expands Imaging Capabilities
Dragonfly Aerospace has successfully demonstrated a significant new capability: capturing high-precision images of the Moon using the dual DragonEye imagers aboard its EOSSAT-1 satellite.
https://dragonflyaerospace.com/capturing-the-moon-dragonfly-expands-imaging-capabilities/
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And updated again!
The certificate for jabber.at has not been replaced and has now expired :(
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“And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when the first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.”
His Masters's Voice - Stanisław Lem
Pretty cool talk from the recent 38C3
Hacking yourself a satellite - recovering BEESAT-1 https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-hacking-yourself-a-satellite-recovering-beesat-1
Hacking yourself a satellite - recovering BEESAT-1 https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-hacking-yourself-a-satellite-recovering-beesat-1
Hacking yourself a satellite - recovering BEESAT-1
In 2013, the satellite BEESAT-1 started returning invalid telemetry, rendering it effectively unusable. Because it is projected to remain...