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by tectonic 6y ago
I do (parts of) this with Huginn.
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by tectonic 6y ago
OpenMCT is solid. We have a bunch of open source space-related software listed in Awesome Space: https://github.com/orbitalindex/awesome-space
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by tectonic 6y ago
Hotline! What a great piece of software. I learned to code as a teenager in a hotline group dedicated to RealBASIC. Such fond memories of that decentralized platform.
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Remembering NASA's Losses(orbitalindex.com)
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A Remembrance of NASA's Losses(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 6y ago
They’re separate entities with very different missions.
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by tectonic 6y ago
The difference is that you can “afford” to buy the whole launch and get to your desired orbit instead of doing a ride share and ending up wherever the main payload was headed.
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by tectonic 6y ago
And soon to join will be Astra, who made it very close to orbit recently.
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by tectonic 6y ago
This is great news, congratulations to everyone on the team! We'll cover this in more detail in this week's Orbital Index ( https://orbitalindex.com ), but the gist is that Virgin Orbit now joins SpaceX and Rocket Lab in
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by tectonic 6y ago
Orbital Index launched on Hacker News almost exactly 100 weeks (and thus issues) ago. Thank you to the HN community for encouraging me to start it!
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Show HN: The Orbital Index, a weekly space technology and science newsletter(orbitalindex.com)
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NASA’s Pioneers program selected its first four astrophysics mission concepts(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 6y ago
Free speech != free reach.
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A history of nuclear reactors in space(orbitalindex.com)
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How even do cosmic rays?(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 6y ago
We write fairly frequently about citizen science and startup opportunities in Orbital Index - https://orbitalindex.com
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The Square Kilometer Array(orbitalindex.com)
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Machine Learning in Space(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 6y ago
What's the carbon footprint of BTC like these days? Has any progress been made on mitigating this fundamental design issue?
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Orbital Index #95: So many rockets(orbitalindex.com)
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Machine Learning in Space(orbitalindex.com)
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Catching the ISS and other orbital maneuvers(orbitalindex.com)
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The Future of Space Warfare(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 6y ago
Citation needed.
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The End of the Arecibo Observatory(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 6y ago
Huginn author here (alerted by huginn to this post!) and I'd also like to know how it's implemented.
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China's Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission is launching next week(orbitalindex.com)
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All Good Things(orbitalindex.com)
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All Good Things(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 6y ago
Super cool! Other upcoming missions that are going to be looking for water on the moon: - Lunar IceCube, a 6U CubeSat designed to prospect for lunar water will launch on EM-1, the first Artemis mission. The 14 kg CubeSat will search for wat

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