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Dr Chris Bridges
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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
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · 3d
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · 6d
Thoughts? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
European firms unite in bid to rival SpaceX
Sources from Airbus said
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · 6d
Optimised #python in my notebooks for deep space mission analysis. Multiprocessing, ProcessPoolExecutor & cyice (instead of spiceypy) gives me 3m23s > 2.5s.
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · 10d
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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ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station @arissintl.bsky.social · 12d
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...
Contact between Kim KJ5HKP and 1st Radford Semele Scouts, Saturday 18th October 2025 at 09:49UTC
YouTube video by Tomasz SP5LOT
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · 12d
Thanks @coastal8049.bsky.social - we appreciates the work! 👍
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · 12d
In about 1 hour!
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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.
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · 17d
Ah ... morning to you too. "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000008b" #embedded #dev
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OpenSource @opensource.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy · Apr 4
OpenXC7 – free and open source FPGA toolchain for AMD/Xilinx Series 7 chi Article URL: https://...

https://github.com/openXC7

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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
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · 20d
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · 20d
Cmon. I'm not clicking on an X link - I'm here for a reason.
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · 21d
Just me or do you also enjoy using make -j22 and watching the world burn? #dev
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · 21d
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
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25d
"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
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Craft Prospect @craftprospect.bsky.social · Sep 26
📢🚀 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!👇
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · Sep 21
Hi @libbyjackson.com, hi @sciencemuseum.org.uk, hi #CubeSat - looks like a wonderful exhibition! 🚀
Libby Jackson with a CubeSat at the Science Museum, London
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · Sep 18
Fml. Is Researchgate OK still?
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · Sep 18
Thanks #EduSky #AcademicSky @nposegay.bsky.social for the heads up on this. Account deleted.
nposegay.bsky.social Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · Sep 17
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.
By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · Sep 18
“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
timeshighered.bsky.social Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Sep 18
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...
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ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station @arissintl.bsky.social · Sep 14
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.
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.
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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · Sep 10
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.
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · Sep 9
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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · Sep 8
for some reason i was absolutely *compelled* to give this NASA europa mission animation a freebird edit
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Casey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · Sep 2
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?

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Dr Chris Bridges @chrisbridges.bsky.social · Aug 22
Super & factual as usual Bleddyn 👍
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