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This Falcon 9 Booster Just Completed Its Twentieth Landing
B1088 returned to a Pacific drone ship after launching 27 Starlink satellites. The milestone belongs to this booster, not to every Falcon 9.
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Five Days After an Abort, Falcon 9 Delivers 21 Satellites and Lands
An October 10 launch from California added 21 satellites to a military data network. The booster came back to land after a scrubbed first attempt.
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A 14-Foot Asteroid Passed Closer Than the Moon on October 10
Asteroid 2026 TL6 passed about 156,000 miles from Earth. Here is what the distance means, what the size estimate means, and what it does not imply.
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NASA Is Sending 12 Heat-Shield Experiments Down With the Trash
Cygnus XL left the space station with twelve KREPE-3 capsules. Its planned October 12 reentry will turn a cargo disposal trip into a materials test.
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An RP2350 Gives Vintage PC Video a Route to a Modern Screen
pico-ttl2dvi samples legacy digital video and reconstructs it for DVI output. The interesting work is timing, not just finding an adapter plug.
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The Self-Driving Lab Has a Bigger Problem Than Moving a Robot Arm
DOE's four selected testbeds target reusable skills, failure testing, connected experiments, and autonomy inside major scientific facilities.
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Your USB-C Charger Is Having a Conversation. Dr. PD Lets You Read It.
An open-source USB Power Delivery analyzer connects protocol messages with voltage and current, turning charging mysteries into testable questions.
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This Telescope's Job Is to Stay Still Enough to Measure Space-Time
NASA's next LISA telescope test unit uses a low-expansion glass-ceramic design for laser measurements between distant spacecraft.
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This Soft Sheet Knows Its Own Shape, Even When Some Sensors Fail
MIT engineers use light inside soft waveguides to reconstruct a bending sheet, pointing toward more comfortable motion sensing.
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NASA's Nuclear-Electric Mars Plan Comes With Three Helicopters
A new NASA-DOE agreement supports space nuclear development, while SR-1 Freedom targets a Mars trajectory and a three-helicopter payload.
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Webb Found the Tiny Galaxy Behind an Enormously Distant Radio Flash
The host of FRB 20240304B is a small, star-forming galaxy at redshift 2.148. Its age helps test what could have made the burst.
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A Nuclear Clock Can Now Steer Its Own Laser. That Is the Milestone.
An operational thorium-229 clock closes the feedback loop around a nuclear transition. It is a new reference, not a claim to beat every atomic clock.
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