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SpaceX discontinues little-known but accurate Starlink location feature

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michael kang

Although Starlink customers have likely never used it, SpaceX plans to discontinue a little-known GPS feature that can be used to track and pinpoint the location of Starlink antennas. The company on Tuesday began notifying customers about the deprecation of gRPC, an open source software framework that was integrated into Starlink hardware. “Starting May 20th, … Read more

COLIBRE: A simulation so accurate that astronomers would look twice

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Five nested simulation volumes spanning a travel range of 25 to 400 megaparsecs. Color-coded by surface density of gas and stars. © Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

For decades, computer models of galaxy formation have relied on an important shortcut: preventing the simulated gas inside galaxies from cooling below ca. 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than the surface of the sun. Modeling colder gases requires tracking much more complex physics and chemistry, so a workaround was needed. But cold gas is exactly where … Read more