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14 Oct 2026 4 minute read 3 comments Investigator515 $0.09
Infrared was once the future of mobile data. Decades later, light-based links are finding a new purpose Today you see someone you’re interested in, and you might go and ask for an Instagram account. Back in the day though, all the cool kids used ligh...
6 Sep 2026 5 minute read 2 comments Investigator515 $0.11
You don’t need a government budget to do meaningful science in space. Interesting questions come from interesting places. Sometimes they come from social media. Sometimes, they’ll land directly in your email inbox. But sometimes, you get someone...
2 Sep 2026 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515 $0.07
L-band satellite traffic is a great next step when you outgrow weather satellites. If you remember the recent satellite dish article, where we looked at how old dishes can be repurposed, you might recall that we specifically called out ACARS as a sys...
26 Jul 2026 8 minute read 14 comments Learn With Hatty $0.35
Imagine booking a flight to a stadium that holds eighty thousand people, buying a ticket for a sold-out show, walking inside, and finding every single seat completely empty. No band on stage, no janitors in the concourse, no discarded popcorn bags, j...
8 Jul 2026 1 minute read 2 comments Cje95 $0.22
For the first time, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is raising money from outside investors. This comes after the setback in May that took out the only launch pad Blue Origin had for launching its New Glenn rocket (Launch Complex 36), which is expected to c...
25 Jun 2026 3 minute read 9 comments rah $0.12
Starlink is SpaceX’s global satellite‑internet network — and it has become the company’s main profit engine, responsible for the majority of SpaceX’s revenue and essentially all of its operating profit. I wrote last weekend on how Elon Musk intends t...
3 Jun 2026 4 minute read 0 comments rah $0.15
A while back I wrote a hoax post (which I revealed at the end of the post) about how Atlas-31, a comet, was going to arrive in Earth orbit with aliens aboard. Well, it is time for me to follow up on that with a real article about something that is re...
1 Jun 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25 $0.13
A striking analysis published by JR Research examines the SpaceX ($SPCX) initial public offering (IPO), expected to take place on June 12, 2026, and poised to be the largest in modern financial history. Aiming for an astronomical valuation of between...
30 May 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25 $0.13
A deep analysis published by Pythia Research clearly reveals why Rocket Lab stock is priced not just as a launch company, but as a "full-stack" space infrastructure platform. Especially after SpaceX's IPO filing of the S-1 draft, the market is positi...
27 May 2026 6 minute read 7 comments Investigator515 $0.05
In this previous article, we took a look at how to use Satdump paired with the RTL-SDR and a modest antenna to collect live weather imagery from space.Shortly after this, however, it was announced that the NOAA Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) sa...
