The Incredible Mechanism At The Heart of The JWST’s Adjustable Mirrors
How does it do all that with one single motor?
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Continue ReadingWe talk to the creators of SatNOGS, an open source and open hardware satellite ground station built using a 3D printer, off the shelf components, and $300.
Continue ReadingTo keep tabs on the International Space Station’s orbital position, Grady Hillhouse shows how he created a an automated tracker.
Continue ReadingWith the recent announcement that the replacement Kicksat has been awarded a launch slot by NASA I sat down and talked to Zac Manchester about the history behind the Kicksat project, and the upcoming launch.
Continue ReadingThe Hackaday prize, where entrants competed to build something awesome that transmits data and is openly documented, has now been won by the satNOGs team led by Pierros Papadeas. The device, or system rather, is a open standard based network of ground stations for tracking and monitoring satellites. As cool as that is, the prize, […]
Continue ReadingSetting the record straight on the history of Do-It-Yourself satellites.
Continue ReadingSpace is becoming increasingly accessible to more people thanks to plummeting costs, weight, and energy use of the technologies needed for freeflying satellites to sense and direct their orientation, communicate with the ground, and perform complicated computations in real time on orbit. The dawn of this new age of DIY satellite making is in no small […]
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