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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

We saw the heart of #Pluto 10 years ago—it’ll be a long wait to see the rest
#NASA's #NewHorizons #spacecraft answered numerous questions about Pluto that have lingered since its discovery by #astronomer Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. As is often the case with planetary exploration, the results from New Horizons' flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, posed countless more questions. First and foremost, how did such a dynamic world come to be so far from the Sun?
arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/

Ars Technica · We saw the heart of Pluto 10 years ago—it’ll be a long wait to see the restBy Stephen Clark
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Uncovering the cosmic dawn from the far side of the #Moon
#Astronomers are planning to launch a tiny #spacecraft to the far side of the Moon to listen out for "ancient whispers" in a quest to uncover the secrets of the early universe. The mission will focus on understanding the 'Cosmic Dawn', a period in the early stages of the universe after the #BigBang but before the first #stars and #galaxies appeared.
cosmosmagazine.com/space/explo

artist's impression of moon spacecraft
Cosmos · Uncovering the cosmic dawn from the far side of the MoonAstronomers are planning to launch a tiny spacecraft to the far side of the Moon to listen out for “ancient whispers” to uncover cosmic dawn.
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#MarsReconnaissanceOrbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: ‘very large rolls’
The latest trick does involve some risk. The orbiter was originally designed to roll up to 30 degrees in any direction. A 120-degree roll is so large that MRO's communications antenna is no longer pointed at Earth, and its solar arrays can no longer track the sun.
By nearly flipping the #spacecraft so that the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) can have a deeper view of #Mars than ever before.
theregister.com/2025/06/27/mar

The Register · Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: ‘very large rolls’By Richard Speed
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“There’s a common misconception that state-of-the-art technology has to be expensive, energy consumptive and hard to engineer. That’s because we have been persuaded to believe that #InnovativeTechnology is whatever bombastic billionaires claim it is, whether that’s commercial #spacecraft or the endless iterations of generative #AItools.

As the #Canadian #technologist and #engineer #UrsulaFranklin once said, fantasies of technology would have it that innovation is always “investment-driven, shiny, lab-born, experimental, exciting”. But more often than not, in the real world, it is “#NeedsDriven, #scrappy, on #location, #iterative, #practical, #mundane”.

The real pioneering #technologies of today are genuinely useful #systems I like to call “frugal tech”, and they are brought to life not by eccentric billionaires but by people doing more with less. They don’t impose #TopDown “#solutions” that seem to complicate our lives while making a few people very rich. It turns out that genuinely #innovative #technology really can set people free.” — Eleanor Drage

#OpEd / #EleanorDrage / #tech / #FrugalTech / #Cambridge #LeverhulmeCentre / #FutureOfIntelligence <theguardian.com/commentisfree/>

The Guardian · Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better worldBy Eleanor Drage
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#SpaceX launches a pair of #NASA #satellites to probe the origins of #spaceweather
Twin #spacecraft are part of #TRACERS mission, which will spend at least a year measuring #plasma conditions in narrow regions of #Earth's #magneticfield known as polar cusps. These regions are located over the poles. They play an important but poorly understood role in creating colorful auroras as plasma streaming out from the Sun interacts with the magnetic field surrounding Earth.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/

Ars Technica · SpaceX launches a pair of NASA satellites to probe the origins of space weatherBy Stephen Clark
Kyoto

A New Satellite Material Comes Out of the Woodwork

Takao Doi’s dream is to go to the Moon and plant a tree. The former astronaut is inspired by ancient wooden shrines and temples in Kyoto, Japan, that have…
#Japan #JP #Kyoto #airpollution #construction #cooltools #CubeSats #engineering #everythingatmospheric #finland #kyotonews #news #SATELLITES #Space&Planets #spacecraft #sustainabledevelopment #trees #京都 #京都府
alojapan.com/1324236/a-new-sat

Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1324236/a-new-sat A New Satellite Material Comes Out of the Woodwork #AirPollution #construction #CoolTools #CubeSats #engineering #EverythingAtmospheric #finland #Japan #Kyoto #KyotoNews #news #SATELLITES #Space&Planets #spacecraft #SustainableDevelopment #trees #京都 #京都府 Takao Doi’s dream is to go to the Moon and plant a tree. The former astronaut is inspired by ancient wooden shrines and temples in Kyoto, Japan, that have lasted more than a thousand year

Space Environmentalism

"[University of Southampton professor Hugh] Lewis doesn’t fault operators like #SpaceX, which he says goes above and beyond by choosing orbits where #spacecraft are quickly pulled back into the atmosphere, maneuvering to avoid collisions with other #satellites, and deconflicting with astronomers. The fundamental issue, Lewis says, is that each new object in orbit increases risk.”

payloadspace.com/there-are-too

Payload · There Are Too Many Spacecraft in LEO"That is us academics waving a big, big red flag, to say we can't just keep doing this."
#SpaceEnvironment#SpaceDebris#Space
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