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Apple's Calendar app has had an API for adding video call links to events for years now, but it is a bit squirrelly, and Google/Zoom can't be bothered to integrate with it. So, ins…

Spent a ton of time on Hotline servers in the 90s. I wonder if any of them still exist. I'd dearly love to be able to pop back into my teen self and mess around on one.

> There were major concerns about maintaining a viable industrial base. Maybe from the military industrial complex that was pulling in billions annually. Everyone else hoped that w…

Von Braun knew that if you didn't ask questions, your government might just give you Jewish forced labor for your rocket plant, which you'd gladly accept. Von Braun also knew that …

Quick overview of why SpaceX's new thrusters are innovative and what they can do… plus, what would happen if you put your hand in the plume of one.

There are also a proliferating number of sun-sync earth observation small sats. These are often from capital/mass/volume limited new space companies. Lowering their initial launch …

Thanks! I love using less known typographic marks like pilcrows for stuff like permalinks, etc. hope you enjoy the newsletter :-)

From the JPL feed: "My computer was having trouble with Webex, I'll restart Webex and try the visualization again." Hope Percy isn't running Webex.

This is super feedback. Glad you like the newsletter. I feel like we often find it hard get a view into when startups hit what they consider important milestones—those seem to get …

This had the only details I could find anywhere on the Internet about the actual encoding of the images (4-sec video still -> audio signal). Plenty of stuff on decoding, but nothin…

Awesome project! Backed it.

One half of Orbital Index here… I highly recommend The Prepared as well. I happen to be guest editing it next month while the normal writer is on paternity leave, so I might be bia…

There are starting to be some lower cost options. A recent Kickstarter promised a ~$250 price point for a Femtosat/Sprite size craft launched as a rideshare inside a 3U Cubesat: ht…

I find the power system constraints for the mission super interesting. The MMRTGs are pretty hefty (45 kg) and end up providing about 2.4 W/kg, without the batteries (which are siz…

I'm interested to see how this mission is couched from a PR standpoint (specifically the long long transit time). Emily Lakdawalla from the planetary society had a good tweet relat…

It's been really fun diving into some of the more technical space news each week. A longtime friend and I are writing it and we'd love feedback and/or good submissions (esp, intere…

Really cool crawling tool. Definitely worth checking out.