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Re:NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts
on Friday March 28, 2025 @01:49AM (#43501957)
Even more concerning is community scientific documents researched specifically to serve NASA going offline in the name of DEI: https://jatan.space/scientific-documents-go-missing-from-nas...
Re:Twitter blocks links to Signal messenger
on Monday February 17, 2025 @02:06PM (#43082247)
Three issues with believing this:
1. How long does it take to undo this though even if it might be an automated screwup?
2. Why it isn’t getting banned on other social networks and only on X?
3. Didn’t X previously block Substack and Mastodon URLs?
Re:I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
on Saturday January 18, 2025 @10:39AM (#42749108)
Most introductions to RSS assume that people want to know about RSS.. and so instead here’s a more people-centric explainer: https://journal.jatan.space/why-use-rss/
Re:I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too
on Thursday January 16, 2025 @01:32PM (#42729024)
Most introductions to RSS assume that people want to know about RSS! And so here’s a more people-centric explainer instead: https://journal.jatan.space/why-use-rss/
Re:Footage of Chang'e-6's land on far side of the moon
on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:29AM (#40559350)
Thank you! It’s part of the Chinese lunar special series I’ve been doing all month. Here’s the rest of the four:
https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-175/
Re:Footage of Chang'e-6's land on far side of the moon
on Sunday June 02, 2024 @01:29PM (#40555808)
If anyone’s interested, I did a deep dive into the Chang’e 6 mission, including clarifying some misconceptions: https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-174/
Ask HN: Curate links? Where? Vote and share your curations
Do you curate links to things you find interesting or recommend? If so, where? Vote below, and feel free to drop the link to your curations!* Flipboard* Pinterest* A blog* Social media* Bookmarking apps* Private chat groups* Something else?
Ask HN: Is ActivityPub better than RSS?
How engineers test Moon landers on Earth
Re:Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?
on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:42PM (#39264015)
I’m an independent space exploration writer, and I love my job: https://blog.jatan.space/about
Happy to answer any related questions.
The engineer who had a key role in Chandrayaan 3's touchdown on the Moon
Google pays more than NASA's annual budget to keep its search default everywhere
Google paid $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere. That‘s more money than NASA’s 2023 budget of $25.4 billion. About 70% of Google’s payment was to Apple for keeping Google Search the default on its devices, which exceeds the $17.5 billion ESA is spending over 3 years.Sources:1. $26.3 billion:...
How Chandrayaan 3 orchestrated firing its engines from orbit to touchdown
The big implications for Moon exploration with India signing the Artemis Accords
NASA advances science planning for the historic return of humans to the Moon
Why Blue Moon competing with SpaceX Starship for NASA Artemis landings is huge
Colored vs. underlined links, or why the latter is better
Show HN: Explore Our Moon
Re:Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?
on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:19PM (#35200832)
It has helped me become a globally published space exploration writer: https://blog.jatan.space/p/my-science-writing-journey
Re:Show HN: Indian Space Progress, the world’s only blog dedicated to ...
on Saturday February 04, 2023 @12:33AM (#34651843)
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Show HN: Indian Space Progress, the world’s only blog dedicated to Indian space
Why explore our Moon, and how we’re going back like never before
Ispace Japan has launched a privately built lander to the Moon, with UAE’s rover
Re:Orion has splashed down off the coast of Baja, California
on Monday December 12, 2022 @02:10AM (#33951819)
Now that Orion has returned safely to Earth, it feels so amazing to talk about Artemis I as the past! If its help in returning humans to our Moon deeply moved you too, you can follow the pieces of its progress via my one-of-a-kind, technical newsletter called Moon Monday: https://blog.jatan.space/s/moon-monday
It also covers global lunar exploration, science and commercial developments to show that our return to the Moon this is truly a worldwide trend and how valuable each vertical is.
Re:Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission
on Monday December 12, 2022 @02:07AM (#33951798)
Now that Orion has returned safely to Earth, it feels so amazing to talk about Artemis I as the past! If its help in returning humans to our Moon deeply moved you too, you can follow the pieces of its progress via my one-of-a-kind, technical newsletter called Moon Monday: https://blog.jatan.space/s/moon-monday
It also covers global lunar exploration, science and commercial developments to show that our return to the Moon this is truly a worldwide trend and how valuable each vertical is.