The sky crane system used on the Perseverance and Curiosity Mars rovers is a challenging control system problem that piqued [Nicholas Rehm]’s curiosity. Constrained to Earth, he decided to investigate ...

Hiring feels deceptively simple. Not easy, but straightforward. You identify a gap, fill it, and move forward. But too often, what feels like a remedy is a swing in the wrong direction. A founder ...

Winston Churchill famously said that if government officials “make 10,000 regulations,” they “destroy all respect for the law.” We’ve long passed that point here in the United States. But what if, as ...

Reaction wheels are useful things, typically used by satellites to keep themselves oriented the right way up in space. Turning the reaction wheel creates an equal and opposite torque in the spacecraft ...