GoKawiil - Tech News

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CoCom regulations and GPS receivers for balloons and cubesats (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-05 | tags: altitude, firmware, limits

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Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-02 | by Olivia Allhusen | tags: green boots, everest, indian climber

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This high-tech airship from the LifeStraw inventor could be the future of wildfire detection (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-16 | get LifeStraw Personal Water Filter → | tags: sceye, high altitude platform systems, helium-filled airships

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The Capacity of HotHands to Facilitate High-Altitude Research (2023) [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-01 | get HotHands Hand Warmers → | tags: hothands, high-altitude research, capacity

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This High-Altitude Cave Drew Humans for Thousands of Years—and These Green Rocks Explain Why (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-05 | get Green Fluorite Crystal Set → | tags: high-altitude, prehistoric, green rocks

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5G From the Sky: New Internet Infrastructure Takes Flight (cnet.com)

2026-04-12 | by See Full Bio | get 5G Drone Signal Booster → | tags: haps, sceye, starlink

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Webb Just Spent 17 Hours Staring at Uranus—and Found Its Auroras Are Even Weirder Than We Thought (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-22 | get Aurora → | tags: altitude, charged, charged particles

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China satellite near miss prompts Starlink to reduce altitudes — more than 4,000 satellites pulled to 300-mile orbit to increase 'space safety' (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-28 | by Jowi Morales | get Starlink → | tags: altitude, lowering, satellite

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Stratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year (technologyreview.com)

2026-01-27 | by Tereza Pultarova | get Satellite → | tags: altitude, connectivity, haps

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Behold This Massive Airborne Wind Turbine Hovering Over China (futurism.com)

2026-01-10 | by Joe Wilkins | get Wind Turbine → | tags: altitude, china, chinese

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Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-09 | get Space Engine → | tags: altitude, guidance, guided

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SpaceX Will Move Thousands of Starlinks Closer to Earth in 2026. Here’s Why (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-02 | get Starlink → | tags: altitude, altitude nearly, half

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Intelligence agencies warn Russia may be developing a new way to take out Starlink (techspot.com)

2025-12-23 | get Satellite internet → | tags: altitudes, altitudes hundreds, attempt

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NATO intelligence warns Russia is exploring orbital "pellet field" attacks on Starlink (techspot.com)

2025-12-23 | get Starlink → | tags: altitudes, altitudes hundreds, attempt

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A Starlink Satellite Is Tumbling Toward Earth After a Strange Anomaly in Orbit (gizmodo.com)

2025-12-19 | get Starlink Satellite → | tags: altitude, altitude suggesting, drop

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Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-15 | tags: altitude, branch, cent

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Top Gun's Carrier Landing: Exposed (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-15 | tags: altitude, branch, cent

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Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-08 | get Satellite → | tags: airbus, aircraft, altitude

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Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-28 | by Objective Unclear | get Airloom → | tags: altitude map, auto, dark

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Bonkers NASA Mission Next Year Will Drop Rocket Out of Plane, Blast Off From There (futurism.com)

2025-11-23 | by Sharon Adarlo | get Spacecraft → | tags: altitude, katalyst, mission

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Show HN: I turned algae into a bio-altimeter and put it on a weather balloon (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-22 | get Weather Balloon → | tags: altitude, lora, payload

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SpaceX’s latest Dragon mission will breathe more fire at the space station (arstechnica.com)

2025-10-31 | get white noise machine → | tags: altitude, cargo, dragon