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Why We’re Learning To Lean Out

This is a post from Denise Chan, Content Marketing Manager

We’ve been doing something new at Bitly lately. We’ve been making more of a priority to lean out as a team. We realized that, for all the talk about how startups should do more, faster, there’s a lot more value to slowing down and taking a moment to sit back and allow your long-term objectives to fall into focus.

There will always be competing opportunities that vie for our attention, but if we don’t make it our number one priority to address fundamental challenges, everything else will be done in vain. That’s why, our CEO, Mark Josephson asks the Bitly team one question every day:

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Looking Back at Earth with Astronaut Tim Peake

To follow along on Tim’s return to Earth, follow @astro_timpeake on Instagram.

Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) is going to have epic #TBT images after six months aboard the International Space Station (@iss). “I use social media to bring as many people as possible with me onboard mission #Principia,” says Tim. “Here, I can share the beauty of our planet and the science behind space exploration.” And what an adventure it’s been: he was the first British astronaut to visit the ISS, as well as the first British astronaut to complete a spacewalk. Tim also holds the record for the fastest marathon run in space.

On Saturday, June 18, Tim and two crew mates will be returning to Earth. We’re wishing them a safe journey home.

Reinventing the Wheel

Planning a trip to the Moon? Mars? You’re going to need good tires…

Exploration requires mobility. And whether you’re on Earth or as far away as the Moon or Mars, you need good tires to get your vehicle from one place to another. Our decades-long work developing tires for space exploration has led to new game-changing designs and materials. Yes, we’re reinventing the wheel—here’s why.

Wheels on the Moon

Early tire designs were focused on moving hardware and astronauts across the lunar surface. The last NASA vehicle to visit the Moon was the Lunar Roving Vehicle during our Apollo missions. The vehicle used four large flexible wire mesh wheels with stiff inner frames. We used these Apollo era tires as the inspiration for new designs using newer materials and technology to better function on a lunar surface.

Up springs a new idea

During the mid-2000s, we worked with industry partner Goodyear to develop the Spring Tire, an airless compliant tire that consists of several hundred coiled steel wires woven into a flexible mesh, giving the tires the ability to support high loads while also conforming to the terrain. The Spring Tire has been proven to generate very good traction and durability in soft sand and on rocks.

Spring Tires for Mars

A little over a year after the Mars Curiosity Rover landed on Mars, engineers began to notice significant wheel damage in 2013 due to the unexpectedly harsh terrain. That’s when engineers began developing new Spring Tire prototypes to determine if they would be a new and better solution for exploration rovers on Mars.

In order for Spring Tires to go the distance on Martian terrain, new materials were required. Enter nickel titanium, a shape memory alloy with amazing capabilities that allow the tire to deform down to the axle and return to its original shape.

These tires can take a lickin’

After building the shape memory alloy tire, Glenn engineers sent it to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Mars Life Test Facility. It performed impressively on the punishing track.

Why reinvent the wheel? It’s worth it.

New, high performing tires would allow lunar and Mars rovers to explore greater regions of the surface than currently possible. They conform to the terrain and do not sink as much as rigid wheels, allowing them to carry heavier payloads for the same given mass and volume. Also, because they absorb energy from impacts at moderate to high speeds, there is potential for use on crewed exploration vehicles which are expected to move at speeds significantly higher than the current Mars rovers.

Airless tires on Earth

Maybe. Recently, engineers and materials scientists have been testing a spinoff tire version that would work on cars and trucks on Earth. Stay tuned as we continue to push the boundaries on traditional concepts for exploring our world and beyond.  

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.  

Now you can send pictures in messaging

How?

Open a conversation.

Tickle that new camera button next to gif search.

Choose an image and send. 

Whoosh. Off it goes. No post required. 

Bonus thing: if you’re on the web, you can just drag the image right onto the conversation. No clicking. How ‘bout that.

UP Wallet, an important project of DACC ecosystem. UP Wallet to DACC is like BitTorrent to Tron. UP Wallet is accessible on Google Play Store and iOS stores 🎁 It is readily available on the official website upwallet.io, simply scan the QR code to download. UP Wallet token Symbol : UWTC Total Supply : 10,000,000,000 UWTC Type : smartcontract ERC20 Decimals : 6 SmartContract : 0x282CB0a611280fF5887Ca122911A0cA6b841CB03 TokenTracker : https://etherscan.io/token/0x282cb0a611280ff5887ca122911a0ca6b841cb03 Exchanges : ✅ABCC (Recommend) UWTC/USDT - UWTC/BTC ✅Cashierest UWTC/KRW

Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPresolutions2018

Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes and hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a post every week announcing the latest project.

We’re on the cusp of a new year. This weekend, the goal is to take photos and videos that capture the feeling of fresh starts and new goals, as in this featured photo from Vanessa (@gypsyyogalove). Here are some tips to get your creative juices flowing:

Reflect on 2017. What were your successes, and what were your challenges? How can you represent those in a single frame?

Show us your long-term resolutions for the new year, like mastering a tricky yoga pose, or ones you hope to achieve every day, like sharing a #KindComment.

Your resolution is your story. Be sure to use your captions to give more context and information about your plans and aspirations.

PROJECT RULES: Please add the #WHPresolutions2018 hashtag only to photos and videos taken over this weekend and only submit your own visuals to the project. If you include music in your video submissions, please only use music to which you own the rights. Any tagged photo or video taken over the weekend is eligible to be featured next week.

Introducing Memories

Memories is a new way to save Snaps and Stories on Snapchat. It’s a personal collection of your favorite moments that lives below the Camera screen. Just swipe up from the Camera to open Memories!

It’s super easy to find the Snap or Story you’re looking for in just a few seconds by typing keywords like “dog” or “Hawaii” — that way you can spend less time searching and more time enjoying your Memories.

You can use Memories to create new Stories from Snaps you’ve taken, or even combine different Stories into a longer narrative! It’s fun to celebrate an anniversary or birthday by finding a few old Snaps and stringing them together into a new Story :)

We’ve also created a new way to send Snaps from Memories to your friends, or even post them to your Story. If you post a Snap you took more than a day ago to your Story, it will appear with a frame around it so that everyone knows it’s from the past.

We realized that Snapchatters want to feel comfortable showing their Memories to friends while they’re hanging out together, so we made it easy to move Snaps and Stories to My Eyes Only — and avoid awkward moments when a friend stumbles upon a Snap meant just for you.

Memories is backed up by Snapchat. We won’t backup any photos or videos from your Camera Roll, unless you use one to make a new Story or add it to My Eyes Only. In that case, we’ll back up only the photo or video that you used.

We’ll be rolling out Memories selectively over the next month or so — it’s a big change for our service so we want to make sure everything is running smoothly! You’ll receive a Chat from Team Snapchat when Memories is ready for you to use.

Happy Snapping!

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