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A space data center can't use air or water: heat must radiate away. Google's first Suncatcher satellite runs its four TPUs about 15 minutes, then cools down.
A short post about what a sample actually is, using a real paper. Enceladus vents its subsurface...
A short post about reading past a headline, using a real one. Phobos is the larger of Mars's two...
Gargantua isn't a visual effect: almost everything on screen is dictated by gravity. What the shadow is, why the disk shows above and below, what the photon ring is, and what the film deliberately left out.
Originally published on The Daily Flare. The Moon has a traffic problem — of the...
My best collaboration to this day was with the open-source Pyxel team at the European Space Agency. It taught me that respect, mutual care and real teamwork exist, and that is the reason I kept going.
Part 1 of Terminus, a series between science fiction and system design: the requirements for a satellite network over a tidally locked planet.
The $30 million robotic mission to boost NASA's aging Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ended with the Link spacecraft burning up in Earth's atmosphere after 85 days, leaving the telescope to reenter in November.
Varda raised $251M at a $1.6B valuation to process drugs in orbit. It has flown six reentry missions since 2023 and plans more than a dozen through 2028.
Why On‑Orbit AI Is a Game Changer The economics of satellite operations have long been...
Project Suncatcher launches one refrigerator-sized satellite running about a kilowatt. It is not a data center in space. It is the test that decides whether one is possible.
Introduction To The Sharpless Catalog The Sharpless Catalog is a comprehensive collection...