The National Reconnaissance Office — the US government spy satellite agency — plans its first dedicated launch from foreign soil Jan. 30 (US time). An Electron rocket owned by Rocket Lab — a US-based company — will launch an NRO payload from New Zealand. spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/21/nro…

A worry junior engineers and new hires frequently have is that they ask too many questions. The most common advice I've heard is to try to figure it out yourself for 30 min, and if you're still stuck, ask. This is reasonable advice, but I don't think it's actually very good.

CONFESSION: Sometimes I place the LEDs badly just to watch the reflow oven magically fix it all! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Gives me the same satisfaction that those "sound of sorting" algorithm videos do.

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Maxim Leyzerovich Kevin Baker Topological Problems in Odie Orientability

This is a section of a PT6A turboprop engine used in a wide range of applications, from transporting people in business and airline aviation, to dropping cargo in the Antarctic darkness at 75 degrees below zero buff.ly/36sQrjx

This photo looks more like "the future" than a traditional rocket

The NASA/NIVR IRAS satellite and the NRO/USN POPPY 5B satellite (aka GGSE 4) are predicted to make a close approach on Wednesday. POPPY 5B has 18-metre-long gravity gradient booms so a 15-to-30 metre predicted miss distance is alarming

#ESATech image of the week: small enough to test on a tabletop, a prototype of ESA's #Sunstorm #CubeSat deploys its solar arrays. Built by Reaktor Space Lab, this mini-mission will launch next year, providing early warning of #SolarStorms #SpaceSafety esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

“REUSABLE CONTAINER DO NOT DESTROY”👌 #Mars2020

Folks, I just learned that one of the peripherals for the original Game Boy was a full-on sonar attachment that could map bodies of water up to 20 meters deep. This knowledge is too important not to share

Never lose again. Via reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHu…

Our chickens pathfinding algorithm is from early 1990s video games. x.com/CNC_Kitchen/st…

Hmm, what port did I plug AP-6 into again? 🤯 Extremely awesome.

Boiling a 32GHz Brodern radiolink to try to recover some dies 🙈

I finally know how far I should stand from other people!