Tianwen 1 - China's Maiden journey to Mars
Feb 17, 2021
Tianwen-1 is the Chinese spacecraft that went into orbit around Mars on February 10, 2021. There was not going to be a live coverage of the event. Andrew Jones, a journalist tracking the Chinese space program tweeted that AMSAT-DL is covering the event on radio. This is where I followed the event.
Radio output from Tianwen-1 after it emerged from behind Mars. Photo is a screenshot of the AMSAT-DL YouTube live feed
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Hope - UAE's Maiden journey to Mars
Feb 12, 2021
I had the chance to follow the United Arab Emirate (UAE)’s Hope mission to Mars on YouTube and Twitter. I followed the YouTube stream of Dubai One. On Twitter, I followed the official Twitter account of Hope and Sarwat Nasir, a journalist with The National, a UAE based newspaper.
The Hope (Al-Amal) was designed, developed and controlled from the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in Dubai, UAE. It was built by MBRSC with 3 universities in the United States of America (USA), University of Colorado, Boulder, University of California, Berkely and Arizona State University.
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ISRO's plan for the next decade
Jan 4, 2021
Chairman, ISRO and Secretary, Department of Space, K Sivan, shared a new year message.
It has been a little more than 5 years since ISRO shared it’s Space Vision documents, it usually shares. I think this had something to do with the failure of the GSLVs in the first half of the last decade. With both, GSLV Mk-II and GSLV Mk-III operationalized, I was hoping that ISRO would start the process of planning it’s space missions again.
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Hello World!
Dec 29, 2020
This is my very first blog post on this new website. This website is built using Hugo, a static website generator. I learnt about static generated websites when I visited the website of Eugene Yan. I went there to learn about how he took notes and how he built his Zettelkasten. I loved the way his website looked.
When I looked under the hood (Ctrl + U), I found that he was using Jekyll.
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