Category: Space
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“Try SCE to AUX”: three words to save a Moon mission
Apollo’s ‘SCE to AUX’ – a DevOps lesson: restore observability first, build simple hardware/software fallbacks, label and drill runbooks.
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Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry: Implications and Global Context
Executive order speeds launch licensing, modernizes rules, and boosts U.S. space competitiveness from rockets to in-orbit services.
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Landing on Mars: No Chopsticks, No Problem! How Starship Will Stick the Landing Without a Red Carpet
How SpaceX’s Starship will land on Mars: belly-flop aerobraking, Raptor-powered suicide burn and sturdy legs for propulsive EDL.
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Rubin Observatory’s Eye on the Sky: Halos, Spikes, and Asteroid Trails in a Cosmic Light Show
Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s giant camera captures stunning cosmic images—spiky star halos, asteroid streaks, and Skyviewer exploration.
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The Kessler Effect: When Space Becomes a Cosmic Junkyard
Space junk could trigger cascading collisions, threatening satellites, GPS, and space access—how we can prevent a cosmic junkyard.