Ned Potter
Writer at IEEE Spectrum
Writer, editor, reporter. Specialties in science, tech, space, environment and medicine. Longtime ABC News and CBS News correspondent.
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2 months ago |
spectrum.ieee.org | Ned Potter
If the moon were a living, thinking being, it would have learned long ago to be very patient with visitors from Earth. In the 1960s there was a stream of spacecraft—and then they stopped, almost entirely, for 50 years. Now there is a new wave of missions—some crashing into the moon or missing entirely, but Earthly technology is advancing and there have been some major successes.
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Dec 24, 2024 |
spectrum.ieee.org | Ned Potter
On 18 February 2024, a missile attack from the Houthi militants in Yemen hit the cargo ship Rubymar in the Red Sea. With the crew evacuated, the disabled ship would take weeks to finally sink, becoming an symbol for the security of the global Internet in the process. Before it went down, the ship dragged its anchor behind it over an estimated 70 kilometers.
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Dec 5, 2024 |
spectrum.ieee.org | Ned Potter
It looks like a big white bullet, with a rounded nose that swings open to reveal a docking port, and a cylindrical trunk in back that can be mated to any of a number of large launch rockets. If it sounds familiar, that’s because we’re describing the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, and in the last decade it has become the leading player in the market for getting people and cargo to and from Earth orbit.
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Dec 5, 2024 |
flipboard.com | Ned Potter
It looks like a big white bullet, with a rounded nose that swings open to reveal a docking port, and a cylindrical trunk in back that can be mated to …
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Oct 2, 2024 |
spectrum.ieee.org | Ned Potter
When NASA decided in the 1970s that the Hubble Space Telescope should be serviceable in space, the engineering challenges must have seemed nearly insurmountable. How could a machine that complex and delicate be repaired by astronauts wearing 130-kilogram suits with thick gloves? In the end, spacewalkers not only fixed the telescope, they regularly remade it.
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RT @PoliticsLuna: The Many Planned #Moon Landings of 2025 (and Beyond), by Ned Potter in @IEEESpectrum https://t.co/L2xLO97whz #Lunapolitic…
Landing on the #moon is hard. @Int_Machines says IM-2 Athena landed on its side and its batteries have died. What moon landings are still to come? @IEEESpectrum has a list at https://t.co/FiSPVgxgSU
Blue Ghost Mission 1 from @Firefly_Space is the first commercial lander to successfully land on the moon. It’s the first in a string of missions headed for the moon this year. #moon https://t.co/rhKcHkNVfW https://t.co/wHB3XQyTPa
RT @IEEESpectrum: Blue Ghost Mission 1 from @Firefly_Space is the first commercial lander to successfully land on the moon. It’s the first…