Rüdiger's Blog

Propellantless lunar launcher applications In previous posts I have described a lunar sling catapult that can launch mass to EML1 without propellant expenditure and with very low cost.

Building a subscale prototype.

Whenever somebody proposes a space-based system using tethers, the biggest question is always the dynamic behaviour of the system.

With the renewed interest in lunar settlement and using the Moon as a source of raw materials, we are finally getting to the point where we need a way to launch bulk mass off the Moon.

A week ago, the rust language team has called for blog posts about the future of the rust language.

TL;DR; You have large quantities of telemetry or other simply structured JSON data.

TL;DR; publish multiple websites via IPFS provide access via IPFS gateway prevent download of arbitrary, non-endorsed content Why?

TL;DR; jekyll based blog hosted on github continuous integration using travis ci pushed to IPFS by travis DNS by aws route53 Why?

BinaryMerge - Efficient binary merge in spire Problem At the end of 2014, I was thinking about what would be the most efficient way to merge two sorted sequences.

sonicreducer - hierarchical reduction of sequences and iterables Problem This is a tiny library for reducing arrays or traversables in an hierarchical way.

abc - Wrap arrays as fast, immutable collections Motivation Primitive arrays are fast and compact in memory.