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NASA just used satellites and debris to navigate without GPS

NASA's Starling mission has reached another milestone in autonomous spaceflight by demonstrating a system that can determine a satellite's orbital position using other objects in space as reference points rather than depending on an external navigation network.

The technology, called FALCON (Fast Autonomous Lost-in-space Catalog-based Optical Navigation), is designed to help spacecraft operate with greater independence. Such capabilities could become increasingly important as NASA pursues missions farther from Earth, including lunar satellite swarms, distributed science missions, and future human exploration.

Navigating Space Without GPS

Satellites near Earth commonly rely on GPS for navigation, but those signals may be weak, unreliable, or unavailable around the Moon and in deep space. FALCON offers an alternative by allowing spacecraft to determine where they are using what they can observe around them.

The FALCON payload is a joint flight experiment developed by NASA and EraDrive, a startup that emerged from Stanford University. The system...

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Managing Multi-Repository Enterprise iOS Ecosystems at Scale

Modern enterprise iOS development often spans dozens of repositories with multiple app targets, shared frameworks, and utility libraries rather than a single monolithic codebase. This distribution of code can improve modularity and access control, but it introduces new challenges in dependency management and build coordination. Engineers frequently use Xcode workspaces

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Your Architecture Is Why Your Coding Agent Keeps Writing Bad Code

A few months ago I realized that as the code and modules inside the structure we’d built kept growing, it was starting to become a problem, and developing with AI was getting really hard. I’d ask Cursor or Claude Code to make a very simple change to a

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Lessons From Building an Edge ML System for Tennis Swing Detection

I spent most of my career building data systems at enterprise scale. Big warehouses, big pipelines, models trained on tables that other people had already cleaned before they ever reached me. I did not realize how much that setup was cushioning me until I strapped a sensor to a tennis

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Building a Local-First Kotlin App With GitHub Actions and RevenueCat

I had been wanting to participate in a hackathon for a while. DevPost contacted me via their newsletter, and from there things escalated quickly. Many of the competition tracks required publishing a fully functional app to common app stores. For this reason, I chose to participate in the Next Gen

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Managing Multi-Repository Enterprise iOS Ecosystems at Scale

Your Architecture Is Why Your Coding Agent Keeps Writing Bad Code

Lessons From Building an Edge ML System for Tennis Swing Detection

Building a Local-First Kotlin App With GitHub Actions and RevenueCat