Tracking satellites and the ISS is pretty easy. All you really need is an SDR dongle or a handheld transceiver, a simple homebrew antenna, and a clear view of the sky. Point the antenna at the ...

There’s a growing movement of people who believe that our space agencies are underfunded (see: Penny4NASA) because humanity ...

As I gazed up at the night sky, I could actually track satellites with my naked ... with light pollution from large cities. The International Space Station (ISS) on the other hand is a large ...

In November, Pettit captured the trail SpaceX's giant Starship megarocket made in Earth's atmosphere during its sixth-ever ...

But therein lies Pettit's genius. He's brought with him to space a homemade star tracker, a device that rotates a camera to compensate for the ISS's movement. It's a variation on a tool used by ...

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He says his tracker completes a rotation every 90 minutes to match the ISS’s pitch rate. “Without this tracker, you can not take photo[s] longer than 1/2 sec without star blur due to the rate ...

But therein lies Pettit's genius. He's brought with him to space a homemade star tracker, a device that rotates a camera to compensate for the ISS's movement. It's a variation on a tool used by ...