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Out of Office

TIL Google's Project Loon published a report, a bunch of tech docs, a bunch of data collected, and released their patents when the project shut down.

Releasing arro3: a new Python implementation of ApacheArrow, built on the Rust Language Arrow crate. - much lighter than pyarrow - interoperable with Arrow libs like pyarrow, polars - streaming IO for Parquet, CSV, JSON, IPC - pyodide support - type hinting github.com/kylebarron/arr…

Banh mi is crazy it’s like here’s the best sandwich of your life and it’s $11

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Between jobs! (for the weekend)

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Please share our data if it can be of use to relief or other efforts. We'll add as much as we can.

Umbra Happy to do calls with people who are unfamiliar with radar data - did multiple calls today. DM me

🚨 BREAKING! Thanks to Umbra we have SAR data maps of the Palisades wildfires. 🛰️ Soar is a good way to view the images without needing to download the data. So for those affeced by the fires who can't access the raw Umbra files easily, we're here to help. So view these

i’m just a bill but for task -> delivered product

Umbra SAR satellites are built for the most demanding customers: ✅ Proven performance with the U.S. government ✅ Highest throughput—collecting 5x more data per satellite than competitors ✅ Deep vertical integration for cost & schedule control Watch the video to learn more.

Hot on the heels of this, big oof

This whole AstroForge Odin launch debacle is just wild. 51+ hour long livestream of their mission control roam and you can just tell so much based solely off of body language. Definitely looks like a team that has resigned to knowing they've lost a spacecraft at this point.

fixing ST related issues 1 month before launch? what're the odds the reason they can't communicate is just a totally borked gnc stack?

Big week for the moon