Spaaaaace (Part 1)

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The James Webb Space Telescope, a project dating back to the late 1900s, may launch this very century

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Belgian boffins dump Starlink dish terminal’s firmware, gain root access and a few ideas

Belgian boffins have published a teardown of the Starlink user terminal – also known as Dishy McFlatface – in which they managed to dump the device’s firmware that was housed on a eMMC card upon the PCB.

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You can read the teardown here. Note that SpaceX does have a bug bounty program, which you can access here.

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Apparently, the smaller suits were destroyed on Columbia and/or Challenger, and weren’t replaced

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Budget cuts, more budget cuts, and short-sightedness.

The remaining suits will be over 50 years old before they’re replaced.

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NASA is considering squandering millions of taxpayers’s hard earned dollars on new astronaut fashions. Can you imagine? /s

And that’s how you get 50 year old spacesuits.

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Can’t they just do what every American industry has been doing for the past 30+ years and outsource this to China?

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But will they have functional pockets?

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Wanna feel old? It is 10 years since the Space Shuttle left the launchpad for the last time

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Not so much “spaaaaace” as “sub-orbital jaaaaaaaunt”, but anyway.

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Cue the bitching in the billionaires’ clubhouse… “you’re not a real astronaut”… “not even a proper rocket”… “my booster is bigger anyway”…

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You are not in space until you leave the influence of our solar systems oort cloud!

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Termination Shock.

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I’m the urban spaceman, baby!

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NASA signs $1bn deal with Northrop Grumman to build studio apartment in lunar orbit with room for 3 vehicles

NASA has inked a $935m contract with Northrop Grumman to build the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module for the Lunar Gateway.

The contract will also require the aerospace outfit to integrate the module with the power and propulsion element being built by Maxar Technologies.

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Hubble, Hubble, toil and trouble: NASA pores over moth-eaten manuals ahead of switch to backup hardware

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Helicopters on Mars have captured the imagination of nerds everywhere, however, an even more ambitious mission to return samples from the Red Planet to Earth is gathering pace.

The Register spoke to Paul Meacham, engineering manager for the ExoMars rover, about current and future missions when we both attended the Future Lab exhibition, in front of a mock-up of a Mars rover.

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