The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) technology demonstrator launched on April 23, 2024.
It uses #composite materials in its novel, lightweight booms that deploy from a #CubeSat. Data obtained from ACS3 will guide the design of future larger-scale composite solar sail systems that could be used for space weather early warning satellites, near-Earth #asteroid reconnaissance missions, or communications relays.
Having never photographed a #SolarEclipse I had no idea what I was doing and rolled with it in the moment. I’m pretty happy with the final product, it turned out better than I expected! Definitely a wild experience 🌑☀️
Photographers with digital cameras that can do multiple exposures – which cameras that you know of (or even have) can do in-camera multiple exposures, either overlaid onto an existing RAW or not, can select on each successive exposure a composite mode such as additive; average; lightest; darkest (the naming may vary but those are the typical creatively minimum useful set) and save the resulting in-camera multiple exposure as a raw itself, not just a jpeg
This is my first attempt at a meteor shower composite! I stuck my DSLR outside with a 14mm lens on and let it run for several hours capturing 12 second exposures and then waiting 20 seconds. I'm going to try again tonight shooting continuously on a higher ISO and really focusing my exposures on the peak meteor time between 1 and 2am.
Two glue-ups done in the shop already this morning. One, a little box to hold my new soldering iron that I mentioned yesterday. The other, the lamp I’m building for my sweetie, complete with soldered-in rechargeable battery. The first will need to be cut open and then have hardware installed yet this morning. The second has a few days of make-pretty before I give it to her and start working on the second one. #woodworking
Also extracted the next lamp body (or part of it) from the plastic cup / mold. It still needs a couple days of curing before I can start turning it and revealing the cholla within, but I’m hopeful that this one will be full of pretty.
Things are going smoothly this Monday morning. I feel as though I should declare victory and go back to bed before things go awry.
A Welsh startup is to launch a semiconductor manufacturing satellite.
The Cardiff-based startup hopes to enable the fabrication of semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, composite materials and more.
The company first attempted to launch its spacecraft on Virgin Orbit’s mission from Cornwall, in January. It was lost when Virgin’s launcher experienced an anomaly and failed to reach orbit.
Helping a friend here: Does anyone know of a good video/audio capture that will work with modern computers (Windows 10/11, OSX) that can accept older #composite video inputs from a #NES? This might even involve something like a RCA to #HDMI upscaler/converter into a capture device that uses HDMI.
Any guidance or boosts for visibility highly appreciated!
The imaginative mind.
External sensory input. Processed subjectively by one's particular mood, emotion and humor.
creates internal narratives that can transport the individual to places both dreamt of and unexpected....
Calvin and Hobbes book covers combined into one tree