Hackaday (unofficial) December 7, 2024 7:00pm Liquid Metal Ion Thrusters Aren’t Easy #techhacks #galinstan #gallium #highvoltage #ion #ionengine #liquidmetal #plasma #thruster #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Liquid Metal Ion Thrusters Aren’t Easy What do scanning electron microscopes and satellites have in common? On the face of things, not much, but after seeing [Zachary Tong]’s latest video on liquid metal ion thrusters, we see that…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 11, 2024 12:00pm Voyager 1 Completes Tricky Thruster Reconfiguration #news #space #thruster #voyager #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Voyager 1 Completes Tricky Thruster Reconfiguration After 47 years it’s little wonder that the hydrazine-powered thrusters of the Voyager 1, used to orient the spacecraft in such a way that its 3.7 meter (12 foot) diameter antenna always point…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 2, 2024 12:00am Hackaday Links: September 1, 2024 #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #azure #bodycamera #boeing #color #dystopia #generativeai #helium #leak #llm #openai #oscilloscope #polive #software #spacex #starliner #subscription #tek #tektronix #thruster #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Hackaday Links: September 1, 2024 Why is it always a helium leak? It seems whenever there’s a scrubbed launch or a narrowly averted disaster, space exploration just can’t get past the problems of helium plumbing. WeR…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 23, 2023 4:00pm NASA Lunar Probe Finds Out it’s Not Easy Being Green #currentevents #featured #originalart #space #artemisprogram #infrared #ingaas #lunarexploration #regolith #thruster #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 NASA Lunar Probe Finds Out It’s Not Easy Being Green If you’re a space fan, these are very exciting days. There’s so much happening overhead that sometimes it can be difficult to keep up with the latest news. Artemis I just got back from …
