Space stories

Space technology has re-entered the mainstream through SpaceX, satellite constellations, and renewed lunar ambitions. This topic covers launch vehicles, space science, and the commercial space industry.

Technical HN threads on orbital mechanics, rocket engineering, and space economics go far beyond headline news.

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Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery

arstechnica.com · 22 points · 18 comments

I made a visual workspace for AI Automations

biom.dev · 9 points · 22 comments

The large robotic arm on the International Space Station has stopped working

arstechnica.com · 4 points · 3 comments

SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today

space.com · 19 points · 282 comments

Russia hits Ukraine's largest mobile provider, strikes data centres

reuters.com · 5 points · 0 comments

ParkourNote – A research workspace, built solo in a month with Claude

note.parkourlabs.io · 2 points · 0 comments

InkVec Studio – In-browser, SOTA, WASM based (rust) vectorizer

logolabs-inkvec.static.hf.space · 4 points · 1 comments

Andurel V2 – Space-Grade Go Web Framework

andurel.com · 2 points · 0 comments

What is the size of Yemen? (2024)

theborys.substack.com · 4 points · 79 comments

New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth's Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely

scitechdaily.com · 8 points · 15 comments

Great News from Saturn's Moon Enceladus in the Search for Life in Space

fu-berlin.de · 4 points · 69 comments

Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width

ampdot.mesh.host · 3 points · 23 comments

Prima: NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time

arstechnica.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer'

theregister.com · 24 points · 19 comments

Meteor M2-4: Receiving Weather Satellite Images from My Garden in San Francisco

gdamdam.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1

arstechnica.com · 22 points · 95 comments

New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators

arstechnica.com · 13 points · 29 comments

How SpaceX's Raptor engine works, one problem at a time

becker.so · 3 points · 0 comments

Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

blog.google · 4 points · 540 comments

Google Takes the A.I. Data Center Race to Outer Space

nytimes.com · 9 points · 1 comments

What Is RLCD? The Secret Behind Jev

di-zhang-llm.github.io · 8 points · 8 comments

Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf]

osti.gov · 3 points · 8 comments

UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told

bbc.com · 71 points · 212 comments

Hubble Network Opens Satellite Coverage to All Bluetooth Devices

businesswire.com · 8 points · 5 comments

Run Linux kernel drivers in userspace on Neptune OS, NT-like OS on seL4

3 points · 0 comments

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

science.org · 318 points · 390 comments