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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 space flight and orbital mechanics type problems - in …

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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 debris orbiting Earth, by querying a Satellite …

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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 expose a REST API other websites can use. That …

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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. And, we’ll take a look at data for debris …

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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 time to lead you through writing code to …

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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 Games creates Project Antoinette Flight Simulation …

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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” to work on NAIF SPICE 2.0, as well as an …

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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 them—Europa and Enceladus, for example—are strong …

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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 audience STUNNED. Here’s what you need to …

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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 feels like they are. These stunning views provide …

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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 SPICE Toolkit, to Unreal Engine 5. So, buckle up, …

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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
  • Tags :

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 are ‘just’ engineering images, mind you, but they …

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