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Submission + - Firefly Launches Alpha Rocket to Orbit (youtube.com)

Submitted by techmage on Saturday October 01, 2022 @02:26PM

techmage writes: Early this morning, Firefly Aerospace succeeded in launching their Alpha rocket to Low Earth Orbit. This marks one of a handlful of companies who have reached space with that few attempts (Virgin Orbit and RocketLab are just some of the others).

Shameless plug — I had the pleasure of building the Serenity satellite, a 3U CubeSat that flew on the mission.

Check out the video of the launch and deployment. It is quite something to watch.

Submission + - Students and the Edge of Space - An amazing glider flight

Submitted by techmage on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:01PM

techmage writes: In 2002 Steve Fossett and Einar Enevoldson set the altitude record for a glider climbing to 42,000 feet in the Perlan I. This year the Perlan II glider will attempt to reach over 90,000 feet. Carried aboard will be be 10 science experiments from students participating in a Teachers in Space contest. Some of these experiments push the boundaries of what can be done at the K-12 level. This news article has a lot more detail on what these kids are sending.

Submission + - How to get company owners to follow their rules 2

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techmage

on Monday January 25, 2010 @05:14PM

techmage writes: "Recently we had an issue at our rather small company that resulted in the loss of a lot of important data. To prevent it from happening again, we created a company wide policy that all computers would return to IT, have their contents backed up and the computers formatted and reloaded for the next user. Consistently the owners of the company break this and other policies we set up to prevent data loss, theft, etc. How do I get through to the bosses that when they break with the policies, they are potentially shooting the company in the foot?"

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