Hacker News with Generative AI: Space Exploration

SpaceX may have solved one problem, only to find more on latest Starship flight (arstechnica.com)
SpaceX made some progress on another test flight of the world's most powerful rocket Tuesday, finally overcoming technical problems that plagued the program's two previous launches.
Space Exploration, SpaceX, Starship, Rocketry
22 points by LorenDB 10 days ago | 25 comments
The Sun is killing off SpaceX's Starlink satellites (newscientist.com)
Eruptions from the sun are shortening the lives of satellites in Earth orbit, particularly large constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink – which could be both beneficial and a cause for concern.
Space Exploration, Satellites, Solar Activity, SpaceX, Starlink
6 points by HR01 10 days ago | 1 comments
SpaceX's ninth Starship flight test ends in another explosion (theverge.com)
SpaceX’s ninth Starship flight test ends in another explosion.
Space Exploration, SpaceX, Starship, Rocketry, Accidents
10 points by ramn7 10 days ago | 0 comments
An Extreme Cousin for Pluto? Possible Dwarf Planet at Solar System Edge (ias.edu)
A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Natural Sciences, has discovered an extraordinary trans-Neptunian object (TNO), named 2017 OF201, at the edge of our solar system.
Astronomy, Solar System, Dwarf Planets, Space Exploration
23 points by raattgift 10 days ago | 11 comments
China signs deal with Russia to build a power plant on the moon (livescience.com)
China, Russia, Space Exploration, Energy, Moon
11 points by andrewfromx 10 days ago | 1 comments
Starship Flight 9 booster explodes on impact [video] (youtube.com)
Space Exploration, SpaceX, Starship, Accidents, Videos
81 points by onzeinternets 10 days ago | 168 comments
Starship's Ninth Flight Test (x.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Space Exploration, Aerospace, SpaceX, Starship
17 points by seagull_sounds 10 days ago | 3 comments
Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (nasa.gov)
The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is a record of the lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon from 1969 through 1972.
Space Exploration, NASA, Apollo Program, History
52 points by Bluestein 11 days ago | 15 comments
European Space Agency will beam the famous 'Blue Danube' waltz into space (npr.org)
Johann Strauss II's popular orchestral piece "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" has been inextricably linked to space since it was used in the 1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Space Exploration, Music, Culture
3 points by geox 11 days ago | 4 comments
Lisp in Space (corecursive.com)
Have you ever had a unique approach to a problem and been excited to use it, but you meet with skepticism. That’s today’s story. What happens if you take someone who’s passionate about a certain approach and put them in an organization where that’s just not the way things are done? Today is the story of getting LISP into space.
Programming Languages, Space Exploration, Software Development
10 points by tosh 12 days ago | 0 comments
New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station (wired.com)
It is microscopic and rod-shaped, can create spores, and may have evolved to survive hundreds of miles above our planet's surface. This bacterium, never before seen on Earth, was detected on China's Tiangong space station.
Space Exploration, Microbiology, China, Science
14 points by zzzeek 12 days ago | 0 comments
Satellite Spots Large-Scale River Waves for First Time (nasa.gov)
In a first, researchers from NASA and Virginia Tech used satellite data to measure the height and speed of potentially hazardous flood waves traveling down U.S. rivers.
Space Exploration, Remote Sensing, Environmental Science, Floods
5 points by geox 12 days ago | 0 comments
The satellite that will 'weigh' 1.5T trees (bbc.com)
On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched a first-of-a-kind satellite which uses a special radar system to reveal what lies beneath the canopy.
Space Exploration, Environment, Technology, Earth Observation
6 points by ricecat 12 days ago | 0 comments
Bitmap Images in 1965 – Mariner 4 (oliverkwebb.github.io)
On July 14th, 1965, the Mariner 4 spacecraft flew by Mars, the first to ever reach the planet successfully.
Space Exploration, History, Image Processing, Mars
5 points by oliverkwebb 12 days ago | 0 comments
NASA Ames Research Center Archives (beautifulpublicdata.com)
Tucked into the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, surrounded by the iconic Big Tech campuses for Google, Apple, and Microsoft, lies the historic NASA Ames Research Center.
NASA, Space Exploration, Research, History, California
4 points by jonathanmkeegan 15 days ago | 1 comments
Elon Musk's Starlink issued warning by Australian communications watchdog (sbs.com.au)
Elon Musk's satellite internet service, Starlink, has received a formal warning from the Australian Communications and Media Authority for failing to submit required quarterly complaints reports on time.
Space Exploration, Regulation, Technology, Australia
6 points by lysp 15 days ago | 0 comments
Never-before-seen 'extreme' microbes surrounded NASA robot (livescience.com)
Microbes, Space Exploration, Science, NASA
12 points by Brajeshwar 16 days ago | 3 comments
Lisping at JPL (2002) (flownet.com)
The demise of Lisp at JPL is a tragedy.
Programming Languages, History, Space Exploration
169 points by adityaathalye 16 days ago | 89 comments
Unknown strain of bacteria found on China's Tiangong Space Station (livescience.com)
Space Exploration, Microbiology, China
11 points by geox 16 days ago | 1 comments
It's official: Starbase is now an incorporated city in Texas (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Texas, Cities, Space Exploration, Politics
11 points by lopkeny12ko 17 days ago | 1 comments
A broken thruster jeopardized Voyager 1, but engineers executed a remote fix (npr.org)
Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long journey.
Space Exploration, Engineering, NASA, Voyager 1
4 points by namanyayg 17 days ago | 1 comments
A broken thruster jeopardized Voyager 1, but engineers executed a remote fix (text.npr.org)
Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long journey.
Space Exploration, Engineering, Voyager 1
4 points by BostonFern 17 days ago | 0 comments
China's Effort to Build a Competitor to Starlink Is Off to a Bumpy Start (wired.com)
China has launched over 100 satellites for two broadband networks that could eventually rival the service from Elon Musk's SpaceX, but progress is hampered by launch bottlenecks and high failure rates.
Space Exploration, China, Satellite Technology, Competition, Broadband
6 points by 01-_- 18 days ago | 1 comments
NASA celebrated employee's story of resilience, tried to scrub it, and fired her (space.com)
NASA, Space Exploration, Employment, Workplace Culture
22 points by hn_acker 18 days ago | 1 comments
Measuring Lunar North and South Polar Regions (iopscience.iop.org)
To aid these endeavors, we produced enhanced altimetry data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter for the north polar region, from which we computed new maps of surface height and slope as well as topographic roughness on horizontal baselines of 100–1600 m.
Space Exploration, Lunar Science, Mapping
10 points by bryanrasmussen 19 days ago | 2 comments
Pluto Flyover from New Horizons (nasa.gov)
What if you could fly over Pluto -- what might you see?
Space Exploration, Pluto, NASA, New Horizons
69 points by dxs 20 days ago | 16 comments
NASA's Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause (nasa.gov)
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004.
Space Exploration, NASA, Voyager 1, Engineering
13 points by taubek 20 days ago | 2 comments
Do these Buddhist gods hint at the purpose of China's super-secret satellites? (arstechnica.com)
Until recently, China's entries in the realm of spaceflight patches often lacked the originality found in patches from the West.
Space Exploration, China, Culture, Religion, Conspiracy Theories
7 points by bundie 21 days ago | 0 comments
Starship Troopers Revolutionize Warfighting (perfectingequilibrium.substack.com)
Rockets will change logistics.
Military, Science Fiction, Logistics, Space Exploration
39 points by Michelangelo11 21 days ago | 56 comments
NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years (space.com)
Space Exploration, NASA, Voyager 1, Spacecraft
5 points by signa11 21 days ago | 0 comments