Mostly maker but (Radio)Astronomer in sparetime.
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-revives-backup-thrusters-before-command-pause
NASA Observes First Visible-light Auroras at Mars https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/mars/nasa-observes-first-visible-light-auroras-at-mars/ #NASA #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #Mars #MAVENMarsAtmosphereAndVolatileEvolutioN
"a brief guide to rsync"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eifQI5uD6VQ #linux #unix #rsync
ESA is Building its Own Lunar Lander https://www.universetoday.com/170745/esa-is-building-its-own-lunar-lander/ #lunarexploration #spaceexploration #lunargateway #lunarlander #apollo11 #artemis #gateway #apollo #moon
SETI Researchers Double-Checked 1 Million Objects for Signs of Alien Signals https://www.universetoday.com/170735/seti-researchers-double-checked-1-million-objects-for-signs-of-alien-signals/ #karlg.janskyverylargearray #radiointerferometry #technosignatures #lifebeyondearth #radioastronomy #algorithm #bigdata #cosmic #seti
The Hubble Space Telescope is a Powerful Science Instrument Despite its Age https://www.universetoday.com/170741/the-hubble-space-telescope-is-a-powerful-science-instrument-despite-its-age/ #cosmicdistanceladder #infraredastronomy #type1asupernovae #standardcandles #dustextinction #dustreddening #cosmology #supernova #hubble
NASA's launching a new sun mission this month: 'PUNCH is going to see a total solar eclipse' https://www.space.com/the-universe/sun/nasas-launching-a-satellite-constellation-this-month-to-study-the-solar-wind-in-3d #solarsystem #theuniverse #thesun
Scientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx samples, discover potentially dangerous asteroid https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/01/bennu-samples-2024y4/ #near-earthasteroids #planetaryscience #101955bennu #osiris-apex #solarsystem #osiris-rex #asteroids #featured #science #2024y4 #bennu #other #dart #nasa
Wer macht mit bei der Söder-Challenge? Und was ist überhaupt die Söder-Challenge? Check it out.
#SoederChallenge
Spacewalkers Complete Radio Hardware Removal and Microbe Search https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2025/01/30/spacewalkers-complete-radio-hardware-removal-and-microbe-search/ #japanaerospaceexplorationagency #internationalspacestation #canadianspaceagency #europeanspaceagency #expedition72 #roscosmos #spacewalk #jaxa #nasa
NASA’s CLPS program accelerates as two landers head for the Moon https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/01/lunar-missions-roundup/ #intuitivemachines #fireflyaerospace #international #commercial #blueghost #featured #hakuto-r #artemis #ispace #lander #other #clps #cnsa #isro #jaxa #moon #nasa #esa #im
NASA is Building a Space Telescope to Observe Exoplanet Atmospheres https://www.universetoday.com/170469/nasa-is-building-a-space-telescope-to-observe-exoplanet-atmospheres/ #exoplanetcharacterization #jameswebbspacetelescope #transitspectroscopy #extrasolarplanets #transitmethod #exoplanets #astronomy #featured #pandora #jwst #nasa #aas
World's largest telescope gets its protective shell (photos) https://www.space.com/the-universe/worlds-largest-telescope-gets-its-protective-shell-photos #theuniverse
Artemis II rescheduled for spring of 2026 as program decides on path forward https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/12/artemis-ii-update-2/ #artemisiii #artemisii #featured #artemis #orion #sls
Measuring the Mighty Roar of SpaceX’s Starship Rocket https://hackaday.com/2024/11/21/measuring-the-mighty-roar-of-spacexs-starship-rocket/ #spacelaunchsystem #acoustics #starship #science #spacex #space #sls
She said yes! Man uses helicopter flight to propose https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/helicopter-marry-me-poland/ #justforfun
Repairing a Real (and Broken) Apollo-era DSKY https://hackaday.com/2025/01/14/repairing-a-real-and-broken-apollo-era-dsky/ #repairhacks #apollo #space #dsky
A PDA From An ESP32 https://hackaday.com/2025/01/18/a-pda-from-an-esp32/ #microcontrollers #handheldshacks #esp32 #pda
Tianwen-1 second apoapsis raise https://destevez.net/2025/01/tianwen-1-second-apoapsis-raise/ #orbitaldynamics #satellites #tianwen #events #space
As it happened: NASA announces new path options for Mars Sample Return mission https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/01/07/nasa-to-announce-new-path-forward-on-mars-sample-return-mission/ #xhomepagehighlight #marssamplereturn #missionreports #xsidebar #nasa #esa
