From the desk · Engineering & astronomy
Roman after the roar.
Getting into space and becoming an observatory are different achievements. The interesting work happens between them.
Read the dispatch →Follow the signal.
Understand the measurement.
An independent space desk.
An instrument on a Kansas workbench.
Sources attached. Uncertainty visible.
Field notebook
The experiment includes the setbacks.
A record worth following before the first sky signal—and worth trusting afterward.
The receiver can hand us data.
A clean repeat transferred 16 MiB of hardware counter data. The first run’s early discontinuity stays in the record. Neither run measured the sky.
The amplifier needs an answer.
No visible power LED through the tested battery connections. A dark indicator is not a confirmed failed amplifier.
Space reporting with an engineer’s eye.
What the evidence allows us to say.