Hacker News with Generative AI: Aerospace Engineering

42 - Spacecraft Simulation (github.com/ericstoneking)
42 is a comprehensive general-purpose simulation of spacecraft attitude and orbit dynamics. Its primary purpose is to support design and validation of attitude control systems, from concept studies through integration and test.
NASA believes it understands why Ingenuity crashed on Mars (arstechnica.com)
Eleven months after the Ingenuity helicopter made its final flight on Mars, engineers and scientists at NASA and a private company that helped build the flying vehicle said they have identified what probably caused it to crash on the surface of Mars.
Blended Wing Body Passenger Airplanes and the End of Winged Tubes (hackaday.com)
Ask someone to picture an airplane and they’re likely to think of what is essentially a tube with wings and a stabilizing tail tacked onto one end of said tube. Yet it is also no secret that the lift produced by such a tube is rather poor, even if they’re straightforward for loading cargo (static and self-loading) into them and for deciding where to put in windows.
Student rocket group shatters amateur space record (viterbischool.usc.edu)
Aftershock II, the latest rocket designed and built by the student-run USC Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has broken the international altitude record – reaching further into space than any non-governmental and non-commercial group has ever flown before.
Model Rocket Nails Vertical Landing After Three-Year Effort (hackaday.com)
NASA indefinitely delays return of Starliner to review propulsion data (arstechnica.com)
Scientists are developing a new way to power low-orbit spacecraft using air (surrey.ac.uk)