Interesting #Arctic reporting as always from Mia Bennett of Cryopolitics, this time on the temporary Israeli base that was built in US state of #Alaska to test defensive space missiles now being used in the #MiddleEast.
Another article beating the drum about a successor to the OST: "[J]ust like in the last space race during the Cold War, the rapid development of new spaceflight capabilities has led to new questions about international cooperation in space and the militarization of Earth orbit."
#Computer errors 🐞 from #OuterSpace from a vote-counting machine that added thousands of non-existent votes to a candidate's tally, to a commercial #airliner ✈️ that suddenly dropped hundreds of feet mid-flight ⤵️, injuring dozens of passengers. A pacemaker's ❤️ built-in computer data got corrupted mid-flight. A group of researchers investigated more than 2,000 bit errors logged by a #satellite 🛰️ over roughly two years in #orbit. A huge number of the errors were clustered in an area called the South Atlantic Anomaly. According to #Nasa, #astronauts 👨🚀 on the #SpaceShuttle used to notice that their #laptops 💻 sometimes crashed when the space shuttle passed through the #SAAhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors
'You know, there is nothing we can do about #damage to the TPS. If it has been damaged it’s probably better not to know. I think the crew would rather not know. Don’t you think it would be better for them to have a happy successful flight and die unexpectedly during entry than to stay on #orbit, knowing that there was nothing to be done, until the air ran out ?'” https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150130-what-caused-the-columbia-disaster