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Category: Japan
Japanese railway shelter replaced in less than 6 hours by 3D-printed model
Hatsushima is not a particularly busy station, relative to Japanese rail commuting as a whole. It serves a town (Arida) […]
The early 2000s capacitor plague is probably not just a stolen recipe
It’s a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in the early 2000s with a […]
Kaizen: A Factory Story makes a game of perfecting 1980s Japanese manufacturing
Zach Barth, the namesake of game studio Zachtronics, tends to make a certain kind of game. Besides crafting the free […]
Rocket Report: Rocket Lab’s news blitz; Starship mishap blamed on vibrations
One Falcon 9 launched an Intuitive Machines lunar lander, an asteroid prospector, and a NASA science probe. Peter Beck, Rocket […]
Astroscale aced the world’s first rendezvous with a piece of space junk
Astroscale’s US subsidiary won a $25.5 million contract from the US Space Force in 2023 to build a satellite refueler […]
Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong
Vast’s schedule for deploying a mini-space station in low-Earth orbit was always ambitious. A stack of 21 Starlink internet satellites […]
Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot
Julianna Scheiman, director of NASA science missions for SpaceX, said it made sense to pair the Firefly and ispace missions […]