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INTERNET SPACE
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Internet Space
Rocket Lab to acquire Iridium in an $8 billion deal, gaining a global satellite network and rare spectrum
Internet Space
Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk describes how one private decision kept Starlink dark near Crimea in 2022, leaving Ukrainian sea drones suddenly offline before they reached Russia's Black Sea Fleet
Internet Space
In ground tests this year, Boeing engineers got two separately created pairs of entangled photons to hand their entanglement to two photons that had never met, all on a 15-kilogram payload, and the open question now is whether that fragile trick survives the handful of watts and violent thermal swings of orbit
Internet Space
When JAXA engineers needed a self-deploying transformation mechanism small enough to survive a lunar landing inside a metal sphere, they called the Japanese toy company behind the original 1984 Transformers line — and the robot that emerged, eight centimeters across, spent 100 minutes rolling across the Moon in January 2024 and quietly rewrote what a machine the size of a tennis ball can do on another world
Aerospace
At a 140,000-square-foot plant in Long Beach that the aerospace industry calls Space Beach, a former Raytheon executive is using agentic AI to turn out defense electronics in weeks instead of years — not to replace his engineers, but because the Pentagon wants far more hardware than the shrinking pool of engineers can build
Internet Space
The FCC just gave Amazon a pass on its Kuiper deadline — but the 20-month spectrum penalty buried in the waiver quietly hands Starlink the win Amazon was trying to prevent
Internet Space
In 2026, Kovi Rose traced a 1.3-hour radio pulse and matching X-ray flicker to ASKAP J1745-5051, a white-dwarf system so tight that the orbit itself appears to become the clock
Internet Space
JWST found a fully formed galactic bar where theory said one couldn't possibly exist yet — and it quietly rewrites how the universe's earliest giants stopped making stars
Internet Space
China installed more solar capacity in 2023 than the United States has installed in its entire history, and the panels were largely manufactured using coal-fired electricity
Internet Space
Antarctic ice cores suggest Earth is still being dusted by an ancient supernova, and the trail points to the cloud the solar system is moving through
Internet Space
Bubble wrap was originally invented in 1957 as textured wallpaper, failed completely, was relaunched as greenhouse insulation, failed again, and only became a packaging material when IBM needed to ship a new computer three years later
Internet Space
The same precision sensor that kept Webb locked on galaxies 13 billion light-years away has been quietly miniaturized — and it's about to solve the navigation problem nobody wanted to discuss on the way to the Moon
Internet Space
Claude tried to blackmail its testers in 96% of trials — and the reason isn't rogue intelligence, it's the science fiction the model read on the way up
Internet Space
Psyche Probe to Slingshot Past Mars, Tuning Instruments En Route to Metal Asteroid
Internet Space