Dr Chris Bridges
@chrisbridges.bsky.social
Academic at Surrey Space Centre, dad, guitarist, M0IEB
📝 Paper List: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=iySVX8MAAAAJ&hl=en
🤌 Uni. Paper Profile: https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/profile/overview?institution=44SUR_INST
📝 Paper List: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=iySVX8MAAAAJ&hl=en
🤌 Uni. Paper Profile: https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/profile/overview?institution=44SUR_INST
We all over-rotate sometimes.
Key antenna in NASA’s Deep Space Network damaged
One of the largest antennas in NASA’s Deep Space Network was damaged in September and may be out of service for an extended period, further straining the system.
One of the largest antennas in NASA’s Deep Space Network was damaged in September and may be out of service for an extended period, further straining the system.
Key antenna in NASA’s Deep Space Network damaged
One of the largest antennas in NASA’s Deep Space Network was damaged in September and may be out of service for an extended period, further straining the system.
spacenews.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
We all over-rotate sometimes.
"Authenticity Markers for Space Imagery" PhD Opportunity at Surrey in the U.K. - it is FUNDED #MLSky #AI #ML decade.ac.uk/2025/02/19/f...
Funded PhD Position - Authenticity Markers for Space Imagery - DECaDE
We are recruiting for a funded PhD studentship exploring novel technologies for securing the integrity of space imagery.
decade.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
"Authenticity Markers for Space Imagery" PhD Opportunity at Surrey in the U.K. - it is FUNDED #MLSky #AI #ML decade.ac.uk/2025/02/19/f...
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You know that Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) was the first educational payload on the station! So we are going to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ISS in style!
Get ready for an SSTV event covering parts of 9 days! It's scheduled to kick off on Wed. November 12.
Get ready for an SSTV event covering parts of 9 days! It's scheduled to kick off on Wed. November 12.
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
You know that Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) was the first educational payload on the station! So we are going to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ISS in style!
Get ready for an SSTV event covering parts of 9 days! It's scheduled to kick off on Wed. November 12.
Get ready for an SSTV event covering parts of 9 days! It's scheduled to kick off on Wed. November 12.
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
October 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
Thoughts? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
European firms unite in bid to rival SpaceX
Sources from Airbus said
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Thoughts? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Optimised #python in my notebooks for deep space mission analysis. Multiprocessing, ProcessPoolExecutor & cyice (instead of spiceypy) gives me 3m23s > 2.5s.
a man with red hair is smiling and making an ok sign in a crowded room .
ALT: a man with red hair is smiling and making an ok sign in a crowded room .
media.tenor.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Optimised #python in my notebooks for deep space mission analysis. Multiprocessing, ProcessPoolExecutor & cyice (instead of spiceypy) gives me 3m23s > 2.5s.
Err. Why has this not blown up here? Just read the thread, look at the photos of a possible 8 cm meteorite hitting a plane 😬
avherald.com/h?article=52...
I’m hearing a pretty unusual reason for the crack in this windshield, if you have any intel would love to hear via DM. 🛰️
I’m hearing a pretty unusual reason for the crack in this windshield, if you have any intel would love to hear via DM. 🛰️
Incident: United B38M near Salt Lake City on Oct 16th 2025, cracked windshield
Aviation Herald - News, Incidents and Accidents in Aviation
avherald.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Err. Why has this not blown up here? Just read the thread, look at the photos of a possible 8 cm meteorite hitting a plane 😬
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Double success for today's contact with scouts in the UK!
22 kid questions asked and answered, and they were able to see Jonny Kim live on station via HamTV.
Thanks to SP5LOT for sharing this HamTV capture on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-r...
22 kid questions asked and answered, and they were able to see Jonny Kim live on station via HamTV.
Thanks to SP5LOT for sharing this HamTV capture on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-r...
Contact between Kim KJ5HKP and 1st Radford Semele Scouts, Saturday 18th October 2025 at 09:49UTC
YouTube video by Tomasz SP5LOT
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Double success for today's contact with scouts in the UK!
22 kid questions asked and answered, and they were able to see Jonny Kim live on station via HamTV.
Thanks to SP5LOT for sharing this HamTV capture on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-r...
22 kid questions asked and answered, and they were able to see Jonny Kim live on station via HamTV.
Thanks to SP5LOT for sharing this HamTV capture on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-r...
In about 1 hour!
Just a few hours until contact with UK.
1st Radford Semele Scout Group will talk live via ham radio with Jonny Kim on the ISS.
Scheduled Saturday at 09:51 UTC | 5:51 AM ET direct via GB4RSS.
Listen on 145.800 MHz, watch at live.ariss.org.
1st Radford Semele Scout Group will talk live via ham radio with Jonny Kim on the ISS.
Scheduled Saturday at 09:51 UTC | 5:51 AM ET direct via GB4RSS.
Listen on 145.800 MHz, watch at live.ariss.org.
October 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
In about 1 hour!
Ah ... morning to you too. "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000008b" #embedded #dev
a blue truck is parked in front of a house
ALT: a blue truck is parked in front of a house
media.tenor.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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OpenXC7 – free and open source FPGA toolchain for AMD/Xilinx Series 7 chi Article URL: https://...
https://github.com/openXC7
Event Attributes
https://github.com/openXC7
Event Attributes
openXC7
Free and open source FPGA toolchain for AMD/Xilinx Series 7 chips, including Kintex-7. Supports Kintex7 (including 325/420/480t), Artix7, Spartan7 and Zynq7. - openXC7
github.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
OpenXC7 – free and open source FPGA toolchain for AMD/Xilinx Series 7 chi Article URL: https://...
https://github.com/openXC7
Event Attributes
https://github.com/openXC7
Event Attributes
Isn’t AI simply value extraction in such cases with music? The intent is to mimic, copy, or emulate while reducing cost and people, no?
Very unlike the ML I use #MLsky
Very unlike the ML I use #MLsky
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Isn’t AI simply value extraction in such cases with music? The intent is to mimic, copy, or emulate while reducing cost and people, no?
Very unlike the ML I use #MLsky
Very unlike the ML I use #MLsky
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"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳
1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day
earthsky.org
October 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳
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📢🚀 We're hiring: Software Engineer (Graduate)
🛰️💻 Craft Prospect is seeking a graduate software engineer to support ongoing space projects and the development of onboard software for satellite missions.
👇Get the full details and apply here!👇
www.craftprospect.com/careers
🛰️💻 Craft Prospect is seeking a graduate software engineer to support ongoing space projects and the development of onboard software for satellite missions.
👇Get the full details and apply here!👇
www.craftprospect.com/careers
Careers | craft prospect
www.craftprospect.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
📢🚀 We're hiring: Software Engineer (Graduate)
🛰️💻 Craft Prospect is seeking a graduate software engineer to support ongoing space projects and the development of onboard software for satellite missions.
👇Get the full details and apply here!👇
www.craftprospect.com/careers
🛰️💻 Craft Prospect is seeking a graduate software engineer to support ongoing space projects and the development of onboard software for satellite missions.
👇Get the full details and apply here!👇
www.craftprospect.com/careers
September 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
“There is as yet no systematic policy approach for integrating higher education institutions into the UK’s emergency planning and national readiness frameworks” - Strategic Defence Review
British universities are an “under-leveraged” asset for war fighting preparations and should be integrated into national resilience planning, a thinktank has said. @helenpacker.bsky.social reports #academicsky www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...
www.timeshighereducation.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
“There is as yet no systematic policy approach for integrating higher education institutions into the UK’s emergency planning and national readiness frameworks” - Strategic Defence Review
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The ARISS cross band voice repeater and packet (APRS) radios are back online after the recent outage for Progress operations.
HamTV trackers, note that there is an outage planned for Wednesday due to spacecraft operations.
HamTV trackers, note that there is an outage planned for Wednesday due to spacecraft operations.
![The ISS Ham Radio Status as of Sunday, 14-September-2025 is:
- **Columbus Module Radio**: Configured as crossband repeater, Downlink: 437.800 MHz, Uplink: 145.990 MHz - PL 67 Hz.
- **Service Module Radio**: Configured for Packet (APRS), Up & Downlink: 145.825 MHz.
- **HamTV**: Active, transmitting blank AV signal, Downlink: 2395 MHz (2.395 GHz).
- **SSTV Outlook**: Two events planned:
- 03-06 October: Celebrating the 1957 launch of the first artificial Earth satellite.
- 17-20 October: Scouting themed images for International Scouting Jamboree.
- **HamTV Outage Planned**: Outage for Cygnus operations on Wednesday, 17-September, around 10:03 UTC [6:03 AM ET] to 18:40 UTC [2:40 PM ET]. Event timing subject to change.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lttqxw77zybfjc3pxraz7xov/bafkreiaeim7g4wdqirmyc55ef4w6s4woulr7vzorbrauyswvsyf65wqfwi@jpeg)
September 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The ARISS cross band voice repeater and packet (APRS) radios are back online after the recent outage for Progress operations.
HamTV trackers, note that there is an outage planned for Wednesday due to spacecraft operations.
HamTV trackers, note that there is an outage planned for Wednesday due to spacecraft operations.
Dear #MLSky - good news - @docker.com #docker for build, #python @pytorch.org 2.9, on #FPGA (ARM7l) from S. Lane, OBDH Extraordinaire.
Simple load, inference, validation & profiling working.
Simple load, inference, validation & profiling working.
September 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Dear #MLSky - good news - @docker.com #docker for build, #python @pytorch.org 2.9, on #FPGA (ARM7l) from S. Lane, OBDH Extraordinaire.
Simple load, inference, validation & profiling working.
Simple load, inference, validation & profiling working.
Reposted by Dr Chris Bridges
Reposted by Dr Chris Bridges
for some reason i was absolutely *compelled* to give this NASA europa mission animation a freebird edit
September 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
for some reason i was absolutely *compelled* to give this NASA europa mission animation a freebird edit
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NASA's Space Science Data Coordinated Archive (NSSDCA) website has been down for at least a week now — has anyone heard anything about why that may be the case?
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov
September 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
NASA's Space Science Data Coordinated Archive (NSSDCA) website has been down for at least a week now — has anyone heard anything about why that may be the case?
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov
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No, UK Government is not scrapping its space programmes.
There’s been some confusion and bungled communications over the musical chairs in civil space policy and the UK Space Agency this week. It all matters less than the chronic lack of focus and leadership from UK Government for 15 years. 👇👇👇
There’s been some confusion and bungled communications over the musical chairs in civil space policy and the UK Space Agency this week. It all matters less than the chronic lack of focus and leadership from UK Government for 15 years. 👇👇👇
The UK Space Agency has been absorbed into the science department. The potential effects are still unclear
The agency has been the subject of some criticism and some aspects of the new arrangement could be positive.
theconversation.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
No, UK Government is not scrapping its space programmes.
There’s been some confusion and bungled communications over the musical chairs in civil space policy and the UK Space Agency this week. It all matters less than the chronic lack of focus and leadership from UK Government for 15 years. 👇👇👇
There’s been some confusion and bungled communications over the musical chairs in civil space policy and the UK Space Agency this week. It all matters less than the chronic lack of focus and leadership from UK Government for 15 years. 👇👇👇
"Today, we graduate about 9,000 electronic engineers per year, and if just 10% become chip designers, we would only produce 4,500 #AI chip designers in 5 years, just over a third of what we will need." #MLSky #AcademicSky
< yikes >
www.gov.uk/government/p...
< yikes >
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Council for Science and Technology: advice on building a sovereign AI chip design industry in the UK
www.gov.uk
August 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"Today, we graduate about 9,000 electronic engineers per year, and if just 10% become chip designers, we would only produce 4,500 #AI chip designers in 5 years, just over a third of what we will need." #MLSky #AcademicSky
< yikes >
www.gov.uk/government/p...
< yikes >
www.gov.uk/government/p...