Latitude to Launch Inaugural Flight from OmanFrench rocket builder Latitude has signed a letter of intent to conduct the planned inaugural flight of its launch vehicle from Oman’s Etlaq Spaceport. The company declined to disclose details of how the project would be funded. Latitude is developing a small two-stage rocket that remains unnamed and will be capable of delivering payloads of […] The post Latitude to Launch Inaugural Flight from Oman appeared first on European Spaceflight.
NextSTEP-3 B: Moon Base DemonstrationsNotice ID: Coming Soon NASA’s Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate is seeking innovative ideas from industry partners through a new solicitation appendix under the NextSTEP-3 Omnibus Broad Agency Announcement. Appendix B: Moon Base Demonstrations calls for industry-led demonstrations, risk reduction, and special topic activities that enable an enduring human presence on the lunar surface. NASA’s Moon […]
Starry Chandelier ClusterThis image released on June 26, 2026, features the globular cluster NGC 6723, sometimes called the Chandelier Cluster. Like its namesake, it sparkles with countless lights. However, each ‘lightbulb’ in this chandelier is an individual star 27,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer). Globular clusters like NGC 6723 contain some of the oldest […]
Show HN: ServerKit – A mobile UI for server managementProblem Statement: A few months ago, I was outside of my city. I was on a bus when one of my team members messaged me saying users were unable to read the product description PDF. I had to wait 3 more hours until I got back home, opened the laptop, and SSH'd into the server to find out what was wrong. In that moment I realized that being able to manage a server from a phone is very important when a laptop is not nearby.What it does: It is a UI wrapper over standard SSH command outputs. It parses the SSH output and shows the results in UI elements, and also translates your actions to relevant SSH commands. This way users won't have to heavily rely on the command line – as we know, typing commands from a mobile device is also hard. However, it also has a terminal to allow you to do anything. It also supports Kubernetes, where you can see and manage pods, view logs and stats, and RDBMS to allow you to quickly perform database operations – a bit like phpMyAdmin or pgAdmin.Tech Stack: Flutt
MaiaSpace Plans to Double Its Rocket’s Performance with One Extra EngineArianeGroup subsidiary MaiaSpace is examining the possibility of doubling the performance of all variants of its Maia rocket “if market response for such a configuration is favorable.” According to the company, this upgrade would involve the addition of a fourth Prometheus rocket engine powering its first stage and would not increase the average cost per […] The post MaiaSpace Plans to Double Its Rocket’s Performance with One Extra Engine appeared first on European Spaceflight.
Time to say goodbye to Sentinel-1AAfter 12 years of exceptional service, the pioneering Copernicus Sentinel-1A radar satellite has reached the end of its mission. Originally designed for a seven-year life in orbit, the satellite has exceeded expectations, not only by its longevity, but through the extraordinary impact of its data, which have deepened our understanding of our changing planet and supported a wide range of operational services and laid the foundation for scientific discoveries.
SSC Space, Firefly set 2028 target for first orbital launch from Sweden’s EsrangeHELSINKI — SSC Space and Firefly have set a 2028 target for the first orbital launch from Esrange, with key infrastructure and regulatory pieces falling into place. The companies announced […] The post SSC Space, Firefly set 2028 target for first orbital launch from Sweden’s Esrange appeared first on SpaceNews.
Asteroid Day & eight other key dates in asteroid historyHappy Asteroid Day! Today is the annual UN-recognised global event to promote public education on asteroids and planetary defence. But why today, of all days? Read on to find out – and find out the other key dates in our current golden age of asteroids!
Show HN: Xenoeye – analyze network without AI using netflow, PostgreSQL, GrafanaSorry for the slightly truncated title. It should have been "Network traffic analysis and monitoring without AI, using netflow-family protocols, PostgreSQL or ClickHouse, Grafana, and some scripts".In 2026, it might seem a bit presumptuous to announce AI-free software on HN. But building a netflow analyzer manually is no less presumptuous!There are quite a few xFlow analyzers out there these days, and I'm constantly reminded of this. But I think there's always room for an alternative approach. After all, that's how software evolves, isn't it?So, how does xenoeye differ from popular (at least from popular open source) analyzers?- The analyzer has a feature called "monitoring objects". For some reason, open-source analyzers rarely use this feature, while commercial ones do. The monitoring object can be a subnet, autonomous system, geo-object (data on geo and AS are taken from external databases), application traffic (protocol, TCP/UDP ports, etc.), VLAN, etc. Almost everything in flow re
NASA, SBA Announce New Initiative to Scale American Space EconomyNASA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) launched the SBIC-NASA Initiative on Monday to increase investment in American manufacturers of industrial components and providers of technologies critical to space exploration to support a sustained presence on the Moon and Mars. Under the Memorandum of Agreement, NASA will identify technology priorities and connect businesses to funding opportunities […]
The Exploration Company is Recruiting for Its Nyx Crew Team in HoustonThe Exploration Company has published some of its first dedicated job openings for the development of a future crewed variant of its Nyx spacecraft. All three of these initial positions will be based in Houston, Texas. When asked why it’s recruiting for these positions in Houston, the company cited “a deep pool of human spaceflight […] The post The Exploration Company is Recruiting for Its Nyx Crew Team in Houston appeared first on European Spaceflight.
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 7.5-ton SiriusXM satellite as part of constellation refreshThe SXM-11 satellite was built by Intuitive Machines and is more than 230-feet-tall. Liftoff on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled during a window that opens at 10:25 p.m. EDT (0225 UTC).
Show HN: Discover content in any YouTube channel with RAGAsk Channel AI (http://askchannel.ai) allows you to quickly find relevant videos, quotes, and timestamps from any YouTube channel.Channels that are not yet indexed or imported can be done so by signing up, and imports are typically pretty fast for small to medium sized channels (~1 minute). Channels are the first-class citizen instead of individual videos, since summarization of individual videos is already a thing in YouTube.---I spend a lot of time watching and listening to long-form content on YouTube (livestreams, podcasts), which often contain nuggets of information or wisdom, but would have trouble finding where it was mentioned after closing the tab.Was also bored with my full stack engineering day job, and wanted to scratch the itch of building something with AI, to hopefully make myself more industry-relevant.---What sets this apart from other tools is that I haven't really found anything similar, or they are very paywalled, or the experience is mostly a Chrome extension. Ther
Bringing Signals to NASAGrowing up on the central California coast, watching rocket launches with his father was part of Eric Fernandez’s childhood routine. Fernandez had posters of rockets on the wall, but despite being fascinated by them, he never imagined one day this would be his career. Because both of his grandparents had served at Vandenberg Air Force […]
Hubble Spies Starry ChandelierThe subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an ancient inhabitant of our galaxy. This sparkling scene features a globular cluster: a collection of tens of thousands to millions of stars, all tightly bound together under the influence of gravity. There are more than 150 globular clusters in our galaxy, though there may be […]
Solar eclipse: myth vs factWhat really happens during a solar eclipse? ESA astronaut Pablo Álvarez Fernández separates myth from fact, answering common questions and misconceptions about one of nature's most spectacular phenomena.
NASA Selects Rocket Lab to Launch Sun, Earth Science MissionsNASA has selected Rocket Lab to provide the launch service for both the agency’s PolSIR (Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer) and Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 (TSIS-2) missions. The two selections are part of NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract. This contract allows the agency to award fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity launch […]
Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classificationHi HN, Stefan here. autofit2 is a project I have been using at my previous company and is now opensourced. It has been used extensively in automated text moderation, but can be applied to any text/document classification task. We had success modeling offensive texts in 20+ languages (cf. github.com/neospe/dataload for all the datasets).It's an integrated pipeline for lightweight multilingual text classification, covering preprocessing, training, and evaluation. It implements SetFit, a few-shot learning technique that works well for low-data regimes (down to a few dozen examples), and offers high throughput on CPUs, since it's based on Sentence Transformers. Dependencies are kept lean, but of course PyTorch itself isn't exactly small.autofit2 takes a base model and a JSON config as input, and outputs a TorchServe model archive as well as a model card. The model card includes any benchmarks you have for your task, self-consistency tests, estimated CO2 emissions of the finetune, as well a
Microsoft Copilot can now handle more of your finance work in Excel with reusable skills and data connectorsThe standout feature here is called Skills. It lets you tell Copilot exactly how to handle the repeatable stuff, like building a DCF, closing the books, or putting together a variance analysis.
Show HN: PostgreSQL backup tool Databasus moved to PG 17 native physical backupsAn earlier version of Databasus shipped a backup agent: a binary that ran on the database host to stream WAL and create physical backups locally. That first implementation turned out to be a mistake, and we removed it. Physical backups now run remotely from the Databasus host, as described above.Why the agent was the wrong approach:• It was a naive implementation that only copied WAL on top of full backups, which led to a long RTO• Users had to configure both Databasus and a separate agent, when doing everything remotely from one place is far simpler• Because the agent lived outside the main system, it was hard to cover every test case• There is really only one problem an agent solves: reaching a database that is not accessible from outside. For 99% of users that is already handled by running Databasus inside the private network or connecting over SSH, so the agent was reinventing the wheel and making a simple problem far more complicated than it needed to be• It could not run on manag















