Preview data from the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory point to a wave of discoveries that may complete the census of the Milky Way's neighboring galaxies - including its faintest companions. "What I find especially exciting is…
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The GitHub Blog This update expands secret scanning’s detection coverage: - New partner: SpaceX is now a secret scanning partner. - Upgraded detectors: Alibaba, AWS, Google, OpenVSX, Pydantic Services, and Tencent detectors include additional false-positive filtering. New secret scanning partners The following…
Qualcomm said on November 4, 2026 that SpaceX picked its Dragonwing Cellular Infrastructure platforms for the ground-based 5G network behind Starlink Mobile, according to CNBC’s report on the deal. The agreement runs multiple years, deployment starts in 2027, and the plan covers tens of…
by Joseph Duncan | Nov 5, 2026 | Luftfahrtwelt, Nachricht | 0 comments NASA has a new X-plane, and it is not the Blackbird. On Wednesday, 4 November 2026, the agency unveiled the X-70 Fractal, a crewed, high-performance research jet built around flight controls that can be reconfigured quickly…
A brown dwarf in the southern constellation Columba is rocking back and forth on a steady rhythm, and the best explanation is a body at least as heavy as Jupiter circling it. If the signal holds up, that companion is…
The same observations carry a second result. The atmosphere has largely recovered from the Great Dimming, the episode in which Betelgeuse faded to its faintest in more than a century of records. Gas that had turned unusually cool just before…
IonQ owns Capella Space outright. The quantum computing company closed its purchase of 100% of Capella's shares on July 11, 2025, and KeepTrack's catalog lists 22 Capella spacecraft launched, 9 still in orbit under the Capella name. IonQ announced a definitive agreement to acquire Capella…
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is gone. The U.S. Space Force confirmed that the telescope reentered Earth’s atmosphere at 7:39 a.m. EST on November 4, 2026 (12:39 p.m. UTC) over northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The roughly 3,200-pound (1,450-kilogram) spacecraft spent nearly 22 years in…
We already covered the instrument loss in our breakdown of the three instruments Swift took with it, so we won’t repeat that here. The focus below is on the rescue attempt itself: who tried it, how it failed, what the…
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