Saturday, September 29, 2018

Interesting Bits of the Week - 9/29/2018

ULA selects Blue Origin to provide Vulcan main engine




SpaceX ramps South Texas activity to prepare for 2019 BFR spaceship testing




Firefox Monitor



New Device Marries Solar Cells With Flow Batteries



Amazon will consider opening up to 3,000 cashierless stores by 2021 after opening its first Chicago location this week




History of the Phoenix VTOL SSTO and Recent Developments in Single-Stage Launch Systems




Saturday, September 22, 2018

Interesting Bits of the Week - 9/22/2018

Shadow of Hayabusa-2 on Ryugu




SpaceX signs up Japanese billionaire for circumlunar BFR flight




Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not.




Osvaldo Alonso wants to return in 2019




Ikarus electric "rocket" - Thrust-vectored flying ducted fan



Review: The High Frontier: An Easier Way



Saturday, September 15, 2018

Interesting Bits of the Week - 9/15/2018

New stunning infrared maps see through Titan's haze



Israeli moon lander to ride SpaceX rocket in Spaceflight’s first move beyond low Earth orbit




Not in our name: Why European creators must oppose the EU's proposal to limit linking and censor the internet



Twenty Projects That Just Won the Human Computer Interface Challenge




Magic Leap One Teardown



R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” Reworked from Minor to Major Scale


Saturday, September 08, 2018

Interesting Bits of the Week - 9/8/2018

ISS leak highlights concerns about orbital debris and station operations




Blue Origin scores big in NASA’s latest batch of flight opportunities for space tech





 British astrophysicist overlooked by Nobels wins $3m award for pulsar work




The Poor Cybersecurity of US Space Assets



Epic's first Fortnite Installer allowed hackers to download and install anything on your Android phone silently




The Making of Future Man



Saturday, September 01, 2018

Interesting Bits of the Week - 9/1/2018

Boeing’s Ferguson on Starliner – no touch screens, but far simpler than Shuttle




The peculiar hazards of megaprojects



Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy




Deep Time





Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier