Why Do Planes Still Use Lead In Fuel 30 Years After Cars Stopped? January 1, 2025 It’s a story about chemistry, engineering and regulation – many small aircraft owe their heritage to World War …
How Digital Telescopes Transformed Amateur Astronomy – Making Astrophotography Easy For Everyone! November 26, 2024 I recently got loaned a Unistellar Odyssey Pro digital telescope, this is a compact telescope for amateur astronomers …
Wreckage Of Titan Submersible Reveal How It Imploded September 19, 2024 The US Coast Guard has just begun its public inquiry into the Titan Submersible accident, and in the …
Blue Origin Misses Its Mars Launch – SpaceX Gets Grounded (For 3 days) – Deep Space Updates September 6, 2024 In the last couple of weeks we saw SpaceX lose its oldest booster, get grounded, return to flight …
Propellent Leak Ends SpaceX's Launch Record July 12, 2024 Last night a Falcon 9 Launching Starlink Group 9-3 out of Vandenberg managed to get to the initial …
Tragic Final Flight Of NASA's Martian Helicopter – Stranded in Neretva Vallis January 29, 2024 After an emergency landing, a test flight and a lost of communications we were sad to hear that …
NASA Is Giving Money To Develop These Insane New Technologies January 11, 2024 Last Week the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program published the latest set of awards, funding technology investigations …
Starship & Superheavy Become The Biggest Rocket In Space…. Before Exploding November 18, 2023 SpaceX finally got to fly their second integrated flight test of the fully reusable Starship & Superheavy system, …
How Submarines Docked While Underwater – DSRV-2 Avalon – Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle July 24, 2023 Avalon is one of only 2 Mystic Class Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle, built in the 1970’s and retired …
Rockets Just Keep Exploding During Tests – Deep Space Updates July 17th July 17, 2023 A round up of the last couple of weeks of space news, including 3 different test failures – …
Kerbal Space Program 2 – First Impacts – Early Access Release February 20, 2023 Kerbal Space Program 2 is the long awaited sequel to the iconic aerospace engineering game, a rebuild of …
NASA's Plan To Rescue Stranded Astronauts – Playing Sardines In A Space Capsule January 16, 2023 In 1973 there were concerns that the crew on Skylab may be stuck without a ride home after …
NASA's Mars Insight Shuts Down, Zhuque-2 and Vega-C Rockets Fail – Deep Space Updates 2022/12/21 December 22, 2022 Rounding up the stories from the last couple of weeks, among many rocket launches we have the arrival …
Is There a Tripropellant Rocket Engine? How Are Orbits Planned? – Deep Space Questions 21 November 29, 2022 Another batch of questions addressed with off the cuff answers, and visuals provided by Orion, who is hopefully …
Can Humans Make Gravitational Waves & Other Deep Space Questions 20 October 23, 2022 Answering more questions in an off the cuff manner…. This episode was edited by my son Orion who’s …
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