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Show HN: I use macOS calendar and have calls. MeetLink adds vid links to events(meetlink.nicemohawk.com)
3 points by blach 6mo ago|0 comments
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by blach 2y ago
Spent a ton of time on Hotline servers in the 90s. I wonder if any of them still exist. I'd dearly love to be able to pop back into my teen self and mess around on one.
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by blach 3y ago
> There were major concerns about maintaining a viable industrial base. Maybe from the military industrial complex that was pulling in billions annually. Everyone else hoped that we would scale back after the insane global c*%k measuring
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by blach 3y ago
Von Braun knew that if you didn't ask questions, your government might just give you Jewish forced labor for your rocket plant, which you'd gladly accept. Von Braun also knew that if you built missiles for the power-hungry US mili
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by blach 4y ago
Quick overview of why SpaceX's new thrusters are innovative and what they can do… plus, what would happen if you put your hand in the plume of one.
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by blach 5y ago
There are also a proliferating number of sun-sync earth observation small sats. These are often from capital/mass/volume limited new space companies. Lowering their initial launch mass allows them to prove out a business model for
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by blach 6y ago
Thanks! I love using less known typographic marks like pilcrows for stuff like permalinks, etc. hope you enjoy the newsletter :-)
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by blach 6y ago
From the JPL feed: "My computer was having trouble with Webex, I'll restart Webex and try the visualization again." Hope Percy isn't running Webex.
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Visualize Starlink's current coverage with active TLEs(orbitalindex.com)
46 points by blach 6y ago|2 comments
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Quick look at last weekend's launch schedule, and how they were all related(orbitalindex.com)
1 points by blach 6y ago|0 comments
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by blach 6y ago
This is super feedback. Glad you like the newsletter. I feel like we often find it hard get a view into when startups hit what they consider important milestones—those seem to get lost in the noise of flying grain silos and such. Some attem
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Magnetoplasma drive could make Mars transit take 39 days?(orbitalindex.com)
65 points by blach 6y ago|88 comments
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by blach 6y ago
This had the only details I could find anywhere on the Internet about the actual encoding of the images (4-sec video still -> audio signal). Plenty of stuff on decoding, but nothing except this that has primary sources that I could fin
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A/V encoding images for Voyager's golden discs (1978 Modern Electronics)(archive.org)
3 points by blach 6y ago|1 comments
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by blach 7y ago
Awesome project! Backed it.
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by blach 7y ago
One half of Orbital Index here… I highly recommend The Prepared as well. I happen to be guest editing it next month while the normal writer is on paternity leave, so I might be biased (but also a longtime happy reader :-).
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by blach 7y ago
There are starting to be some lower cost options. A recent Kickstarter promised a ~$250 price point for a Femtosat/Sprite size craft launched as a rideshare inside a 3U Cubesat: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects&#x2F
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by blach 7y ago
I find the power system constraints for the mission super interesting. The MMRTGs are pretty hefty (45 kg) and end up providing about 2.4 W/kg, without the batteries (which are sized independently) required to store their output. Also,
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by blach 7y ago
I'm interested to see how this mission is couched from a PR standpoint (specifically the long long transit time). Emily Lakdawalla from the planetary society had a good tweet related to this: https://twitter.com/elakdaw
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by blach 7y ago
It's been really fun diving into some of the more technical space news each week. A longtime friend and I are writing it and we'd love feedback and/or good submissions (esp, interesting independent blog/Medium/other
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Show HN: Orbital Index, a brief/technical/curated newsletter(orbitalindex.com)
10 points by blach 7y ago|2 comments
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by blach 17y ago
Really cool crawling tool. Definitely worth checking out.