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How cool is this?! Crazy impressive that both Voyagers have survived 46 years IN SPACE without any physical maintenance - allowing humanity to travel and observe outside of our solar system! And now Nasa's clever JPL engineers have remotely repaired Voyager 1 from 15 Billion miles away (checkout the great conference room photo in the article's link to the JPL website) My impressions? i) Technology can inspire people ii) legacy electronics can still deliver A LOT of value, iii) engineers get better with age, iv) gratitude for the small army of 1970s technicians who brought Voyager from paper to reality: machinists, welders, electronics technicians, etc... In these challenging times when rebuilding American manufacturing is of existential importance, our country desperately needs engineers, scientists and (ESPECIALLY) technologists. Share this with your kids if you have 'em. At the very least it's a pretty cool car-ride or dinner table discussion! Only 40,000 more years to go until we reach Ursa Minor;). Go Nasa!

NASA's EELS robot: Designed to unlock secrets of Enceladus and beyond. Subscribe to our tech newsletter, the Blueprint which is your daily source of tech, science and engineering innovation.  Here you go: 👉 https://ie.social/V0ymX #engineering #science #technology

New Post: NASA Uses Small Engine to Enhance Sustainable Jet Research - https://lnkd.in/eprVarcB inside a high-tech NASA laboratory in Cleveland is something you could almost miss at first glance: a small-scale, fully operational jet engine to test new technology that could make aviation more sustainable.  The engine’s smaller size and modestly equipped test stand means researchers and engineers can try out newly designed engine components less expensively compared […]

New Post: NASA Uses Small Engine to Enhance Sustainable Jet Research - https://lnkd.in/eprVarcB inside a high-tech NASA laboratory in Cleveland is something you could almost miss at first glance: a small-scale, fully operational jet engine to test new technology that could make aviation more sustainable.  The engine’s smaller size and modestly equipped test stand means researchers and engineers can try out newly designed engine components less expensively compared […]

Multi disciplinary teams : As a boy I was obsessed with the Apollo missions, Saturn 5 rockets, astronauts and moon dust. My Uncle Bob worked at JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab)in Pasadena. What I hadn’t appreciated then was the way NASA (and Bob) changed the game when it came to innovation. Their secret? Bringing together people from all sorts of different fields to work on the toughest challenges of the space race. At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000. The teams they brought together were called "Multidisciplinary Teams", or MDTs for short. The magic of MDTs is that they mix up skills, viewpoints, and know-how to crack complex problems in fresh ways. NASA's 1960s dream teams weren't just made up of rocket scientists and engineers. They also had experts in everything from materials to medicine, nutrition to psychology. By mashing up insights from wildly different areas, NASA was able to innovate at warp speed. Many of the wild new ideas that NASA's MDTs came up with back then, like satellite tech and space food, ended up transforming whole industries and becoming part of our everyday lives. As a business leader today, you might not be aiming for the actual moon, but in our crazy fast-moving world, you're still facing challenges that need the same kind of bold, boundary-busting approach to innovation. By stealing a page from NASA's playbook and setting up your own MDTs, you can prep your company for the future and get ready to unleash the next generation of game-changing ideas. As the sci-fi genius Arthur C. Clarke said, "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." That's exactly the kind of push-the-limits, make-the-impossible-possible spirit that MDTs are all about. NASA opened up a whole new universe of possibilities in the 1960s by busting out of silos and harnessing the power of diverse thinking. And my with my Uncle Bob , NASA helped me to shoot for the stars and think big and diverse.

What Is Your Dream Job? We all like to dream big, accomplish great things in life and secure ourselves a bright future. Some of us engage in a start-up, with 20 hours work-day and no sleep, hoping to be successful, others work for the company 9 to 5, building up experience and growing professionally, others still freelance and take risks in dangerous intrapreneur waters. All of this is really fine, and some people would give their left arm for it, but I wanted to talk about dreaming BIG! There's an article about Voyager 1 NASA spacecraft, that was launched in 1977, and now is 24 billion kilometers from earth, actually, it is the most distance humanmade object from our planet. Voyager 1 is 47 years old, and no surprise it had some software issues after all this years. NASA programmers have managed to fix it at this distance, and the following article is about this trully Space Odyssey. THIS is my dream job, and I wouldn't be happier if I could have it. Let me know what is your dream job, I mean really big, dreammy, out of this world job. The one that will make you put your house on fire, get naked and dance in front of your burning property? Just kidding, you should NEVER do this :) """ NASA BLOG """ https://lnkd.in/drP3bmsf

I just love these updates on NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Voyager #spaceprobes, here again on Voyager-1, launched in 1977 and right now some 24 bn kilometers from #Earth. The #spacecraft stopped sending usable data back in November last year, and after an amazing debugging exercise, engineers were finally able to work around a defective chip with a software update. The first instruments on board (plasma wave subsystem and magnetometer instrument) resumed operations in April, and with more more work since, "cosmic ray subsystem and low energy charged particle instrument required a little more tweaking but are now operational." Keep in mind, any signal takes 22.5 hours from Earth to the probe, and again 22.5 hours back, and we're talking computer hardware designed in the early 70s of the last century. #Nasa expects that "both Voyagers will continue to be operational by the time the 50th anniversary of the mission's launch rolls around in 2027." #spaceexploration 15

Legacy Electronics in action! Sometimes upgrading to the latest and greatest is jut not an option;)

🚀 Exciting News for U.S. Students! 🚀 NASA, along with collaborators, has just announced the Lunar Autonomy Challenge, a unique opportunity for college and university students to showcase their software development skills! 🌕💻 In this challenge, students will develop autonomous agents to complete specific tasks on a virtual simulation of the Moon’s surface—without human intervention! 🤖 If you're passionate about space exploration, robotics, and AI, this is your chance to shine and make an impact. 💡✨ Timeline: Check the challenge timeline and structure to get started! Prizes: There's more than just bragging rights on the line! 🏆 Contact at: https://lnkd.in/dBwTVxHU #NASA #LunarAutonomyChallenge #SpaceExploration #Robotics #AI #Innovation #STEM #AutonomousAgents #SoftwareDevelopment #MoonMission #SpaceTech #VirtualSimulations #FutureLeaders #Engineering #TechChallenge #StudentsOfSTEM

NASA's optical communications demonstration has hit 25 Mbps in a test transmitting engineering data back to Earth from 140 million miles (226 million kilometers) away. The payload is riding aboard the Psyche probe, which is headed for an asteroid of the same name. On December 11, when the spacecraft was 19 million miles (30 million kilometers) away, it reached 267 Mbps, which NASA described as "comparable to broadband internet download speeds." NASA has better broadband than this writer, it would seem. However, as Psyche has continued on its trajectory, the distances have become greater, and the rate at which data can be transmitted and received has tumbled. At 140 million miles, the project's goal was to reach a lofty 1 Mbps. Instead, engineers managed to get 25 Mbps out of the demonstration. The demonstrator is only along for the ride – Psyche uses conventional radio technology for its mission. However, the demonstration does point to the potential for higher-bandwidth communications in future projects. Laser beam comms are fast, so long as the weather cooperates. #NASA #laser #broadband #communications #weather https://lnkd.in/gByVepB8