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Does intelligent life exist outside the Universe?

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : November 4, 2022
  • Categories : Cosmology
  • Tags : Intelligence ,Philosophy ,Cosmology
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MaxQ Spaceflight Toolkit Released to Unreal Engine Marketplace

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : June 10, 2022
  • Categories : Programming
  • Tags : Unreal engine ,Spice ,Development ,Third party libs series ,Nasa
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ASAT Code Tutorial 3: Build a Node.js Server, query a SatCat for weapons test debris data

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : May 20, 2022
  • Categories : Defense
  • Tags : Space ,Development ,Asat series
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Defense: We need clean Anti-Satellite Weapons! Part 2: Intro to Asat Code Tutorials

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : May 20, 2022
  • Categories : Defense
  • Tags : Space ,Development ,Asat series
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Adding Third-Party Libraries to Unreal Engine : NASA’s SPICE Toolkit (Part 1)

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : April 30, 2022
  • Categories : Development
  • Tags : Spice ,Development ,Third party libs series ,Nasa ,Tutorial
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Does intelligent life exist outside the Universe?

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : November 4, 2022
  • Categories : Cosmology
  • Tags : Intelligence ,Philosophy ,Cosmology

We are hardwired to project human qualities onto what we see as intelligence

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Updated: Adding Third-Party Libraries to Unreal Engine : NASA's SPICE Toolkit (Part 5)

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : July 1, 2022
  • Categories : Tech
  • Tags : Spice ,Development ,Third party libs series ,Nasa ,Tutorial

We integrated NASA’s SPICE library with Unreal Engine 5, into MaxQ Spaceflight Toolkit, and Unreal Engine 5 Plugin. Let’s solve some …

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MaxQ Spaceflight Toolkit Released to Unreal Engine Marketplace

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : June 10, 2022
  • Categories : Programming
  • Tags : Unreal engine ,Spice ,Development ,Third party libs series ,Nasa

MaxQ Spaceflight Toolkit for Unreal Engine 5 has been released to the Unreal Engine Marketplace.

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ASAT Code Tutorial 4: Call a SatCat REST API from Unreal Engine 5

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : May 20, 2022
  • Categories : Programming
  • Tags : Development ,Unreal engine ,Space ,Asat series

Unreal Engine’s HTTP and JSON modules make it ultra-easy to send requests over Http. Learn how to make your own Live 3D visualization of space …

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ASAT Code Tutorial 3: Build a Node.js Server, query a SatCat for weapons test debris data

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : May 20, 2022
  • Categories : Defense
  • Tags : Space ,Development ,Asat series

Today you’ll develop a Node.js server that displays a list of satellite collision alerts. The server will serve alert-list web pages, and also …

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ASAT Code Tutorial 2: Process SatCat data yourself in a C# Application

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : May 20, 2022
  • Categories : Defense
  • Tags : Space ,Development ,Asat series

Learn how to develop a C# application that analyzes live satellite orbit data. We’ll also get and process lists of collision near-miss alerts. …

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ASAT Code Tutorial 1: Read SatCat data with cURL

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : May 20, 2022
  • Categories : Defense
  • Tags : Space ,Development ,Asat series

Use cURL to investigate orbital debris created by anti-satellite weapons testing.

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Defense: We need clean Anti-Satellite Weapons! Part 2: Intro to Asat Code Tutorials

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : May 20, 2022
  • Categories : Defense
  • Tags : Space ,Development ,Asat series

In the first post of this series, I made the point that “dirty” Anti-Satellite Weapons are unusable in limited conflicts. Now it’s …

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Epic Games just made your flight simulator obsolete. Sorta.

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : May 17, 2022
  • Categories : Programming
  • Tags : Unreal engine ,Project antionette ,Simulation ,Flight simulation

So, you’re developing a Spaceflight Simulator. How’s a little help with atmospheric flight sound? Good? You’re in luck: Epic …

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Job Openings at JPL/NASA: SPICE 2.0!

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : May 15, 2022
  • Categories : Careers
  • Tags : Career

JPL is looking for a “Solar System Geometry Development Engineer” and “Software Engineer for Small-body Ephemeris Development” …

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U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Second Law of Thermodynamics

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : May 12, 2022
  • Categories : Satire
  • Tags : Thermodynamics

“No fundamental arrow of time”, court rules, in stunning rejection of entropy.

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These are the Best Places to Search for Habitable Exomoons

  • Evan Gough
  • Date : May 11, 2022
  • Categories : Astrobiology
  • Tags : Astrobiology

Our Solar System contains eight planets and more than 200 moons. The large majority of those moons have no chance of being habitable, but some of …

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Pop Culture for Scientists and Engineers: May 2022

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : May 5, 2022
  • Categories : Satire
  • Tags : Pop culture

Fearlessly enter conversations with the TikTok generation and offer your own take on A$AP Rocky’s relationship with Rihanna that will leave your …

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Defense: We need clean Anti-Satellite Weapons! (Part 1)

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : May 3, 2022
  • Categories : Defense
  • Tags : Space ,Asat series ,Commentary

Direct Ascent Anti-Satellite Missiles are debris-generating sledgehammers. Would we actually ever use them in a conflict?

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They Did It! Rocket Lab Uses Copter to Catch (and Release) a Rocket

  • Alan Boyle
  • Date : May 3, 2022
  • Categories : Operations
  • Tags : Launch ,Rocket lab

Rocket Lab has just joined SpaceX in the club of space companies that can launch an orbital-class rocket booster and bring it back alive.

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Now, We can Finally Compare Webb to Other Infrared Observatories

  • Nancy Atkinson
  • Date : May 2, 2022
  • Categories : Astronomy
  • Tags : Astronomy ,Jwst

The images released by the James Webb Space Telescope team last week aren’t officially ‘first light’ images from the new telescope, but in a way, it …

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Spatial Rebasing: An Unreal Engine Odyssey

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : April 30, 2022
  • Categories : Programming
  • Tags : Unreal engine ,Space ,Development

Taming the coordinate system in galactic scale space games. (Also, will LWC fix everything?)

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Adding Third-Party Libraries to Unreal Engine : NASA's SPICE Toolkit (Part 1)

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : April 30, 2022
  • Categories : Development
  • Tags : Spice ,Development ,Third party libs series ,Nasa ,Tutorial

How do we integrate a 3rd party library with Unreal Engine 5? In this epic 5 part series we will marry a REAL rocket science library, NASA’s …

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Adding Third-Party Libraries to Unreal Engine : NASA's SPICE Toolkit (Part 2)

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : April 30, 2022
  • Categories : Tech
  • Tags : Spice ,Development ,Third party libs series ,Nasa ,Tutorial

We are integrating a 3rd party library with Unreal Engine 5. What are our options?

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Adding Third-Party Libraries to Unreal Engine : NASA's SPICE Toolkit (Part 3)

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : April 30, 2022
  • Categories : Tech
  • Tags : Spice ,Development ,Third party libs series ,Nasa

We are integrating a 3rd party library with Unreal Engine 5. How do we integrate the library into the build?

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Adding Third-Party Libraries to Unreal Engine : NASA's SPICE Toolkit (Part 4)

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : April 30, 2022
  • Categories : Tech
  • Tags : Spice ,Development ,Third party libs series ,Nasa ,Tutorial

We are integrating NASA’s SPICE library with Unreal Engine 5. How do we expose SPICE functionality to our app/game (C++/Blueprints)?

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Authors Wanted!

  • Chuck Noble
  • Date : April 30, 2022
  • Categories : Tech
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Authors Wanted! Are you an expert with something to say?

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Prepare Yourself: New Engineering Images from JWST Will Blow Your Mind

  • Nancy Atkinson
  • Date : April 28, 2022
  • Categories : Astronomy
  • Tags : Astronomy ,Jwst

If the phrase “My god, it’s full of stars” was ever appropriate, it’s today, because of these new images from the James Webb Space Telescope. These …

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