Celestial Wonders in LeoLeo is a prominent sight for stargazers in April. Its famous sickle, punctuated by the bright star Regulus, draws many a beginning stargazer’s eyes, inviting deeper looks into some of Leo’s celestial delights, including a great double star and a famous galactic trio. Leo’s distinctive forward sickle, or “reverse question mark,” is easy to spot […]
Stunning Images, A Chat with Friends — Another Great Day for Artemis IIThe Artemis II crew is on their way back to Earth after swinging around the Moon yesterday. Stunning images of both the Moon and the Earth have been downlinked already […]
Experience the Rollout of SLS Hardware for Artemis IIIDigital creators and social media users are invited to register to attend the rollout of the third SLS (Space Launch System) core stage as it is prepped to head from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Are you passionate about social media and communications? Do you love to create content for an […]
The moon base has a hardware plan. It needs a software strategy, too.Early in my career at SpaceX, I was the only person dedicated to training the mission control team for Dragon. For three years, I built the training for the operations team. The documentation came second, always the thing I’d get to later, always the thing that felt like overhead against the actual work of getting […] The post The moon base has a hardware plan. It needs a software strategy, too. appeared first on SpaceNews.
Thinking of You, EarthOn April 4, 2026, NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft’s main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon. The Artemis II astronauts – Wiseman and fellow NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Victor Glover, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut […]
Show HN: Mason – A container for running a team of agents using a conciergeWhile working on a few projects with claude code I found myself building a bunch of scaffolding to organize and build my agent workflow. Trying to figure out how to orchestrate my agents and work with them in a more natural way was more interesting to me. This container has all of the basic building blocks of my workflow. I use both the terminal and chat server depending on what I’m trying to do. So do what feels comfortable to you. I suggest having the terminal window open and watching the agents work is a good idea to get a feel for things. Take a look at the README and the other docs. I’ll be checking this thread and will respond when I can. Thanks for reading this far!
Illuminated in OrionNASA astronaut Christina Koch reads on a tablet in the dimly lit Orion crew capsule in this April 3, 2026, photo. To the right of the image’s center, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen is seen in profile peering out of one of Orion’s windows. Lights are turned off to avoid glare on the […]
You may not have heard of her, but this ‘Polynesian kid’ has millions of listenersRISSA is low-key as she arrives at the creative studio in Glendenning, near Blacktown in Sydney, dressed in slouchy black clothing. But as soon as the 28-year-old singer dons her trademark layered ...
Hello, WorldNASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. This and another photo of Earth are the first […]
Europe’s strategic autonomy in space will define its role in the ‘second space age’Europe’s future in space really boils down to one question: can it stay ahead without relying on technology made somewhere else? As we step into what experts call the “second space age,” strategic autonomy is suddenly front and center for the European Union. And it is increasingly essential that Europe can get to, control and […] The post Europe’s strategic autonomy in space will define its role in the ‘second space age’ appeared first on SpaceNews.
Show HN: AptSelect – A local desktop app to test LLMs side-by-sideHi HN,Whenever I needed an LLM to reliably output JSON or follow strict formatting rules, I kept having to write throwaway JavaScript scripts just to test the same prompt against OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google APIs to see who actually followed the instructions. It was a tedious workflow, so I built a local desktop UI to just do it for me.What it does:* Sends one prompt to OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and Google simultaneously so you can compare the outputs in a single grid.* Automatically checkpoints your runs. If you tweak a word and the output gets worse, you can just click back to the previous version.* Exposes raw API responses, latency stats, and token usage instead of hiding them behind a chat UI.* Saves your history to a local SQLite file on your disk.* Keeps your API keys encrypted locally (zero telemetry).Yes, it is built on Electron. I sincerely apologize to your RAM. I tried to mitigate the usual bloat by sticking to vanilla JS and native Web Components, so it idles around ~24
Artemis II is unlikely to be the cultural touchstone Apollo 8 was, and that's OKNASA has struggled to deal with the widespread sentiment that NASA has “been there, done that."
Agentic AI: the future of space warfareThe future of space warfare will be determined by the speed of decision. As satellite constellations proliferate and adversaries field increasingly sophisticated counterspace capabilities, the ability to sense, analyze and act faster than an opponent will dictate who controls the space domain. Artificial intelligence is already improving complex military decision-making. But agentic AI — a […] The post Agentic AI: the future of space warfare appeared first on SpaceNews.
Rocket Lab wins German approval for Mynaric dealDecision clears path for April closing after months of scrutiny over keeping key space technology in domestic hands The post Rocket Lab wins German approval for Mynaric deal appeared first on SpaceNews.
Live coverage: Falcon 9 booster to fly for record 34th time on Starlink delivery missionLiftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida is scheduled for the opening of the launch window at 5:15 p.m. EDT (2115 UTC).
Falcon 9 booster to fly for 34th time on Starlink delivery missionLiftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida is scheduled for the opening of the launch window at 5:15 p.m. EDT (2115 UTC).
Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controlsI'm excited to introduce Zerobox, a cross-platform, single binary process sandboxing CLI written in Rust. It uses the sandboxing crates from the OpenAI Codex repo and adds additional functionalities like secret injection, SDK, etc.Watch the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZiPm9BOPCgZerobox follows the same sandboxing policy as Deno which is deny by default. The only operation that the command can run is reading files, all writes and network I/O are blocked by default. No VMs, no Docker, no remote servers.Want to block reads to /etc? zerobox --deny-read=/etc -- cat /etc/passwd cat: /etc/passwd: Operation not permitted How it works:Zerobox wraps any commands/programs, runs an MITM proxy and uses the native sandboxing solutions on each operating system (e.g BubbleWrap on Linux) to run the given process in a sandbox. The MITM proxy has two jobs: blocking network calls and injecting credentials at the network level.Think of it this way, I want to inject "Bearer OPENAI_API_KEY" but I
ESA Seeks Commercial Provider to Transport Payload to the MoonThe European Space Agency is seeking a commercial provider to deliver its NILS2 instrument to the Moon to measure negative ions on the lunar surface. On 1 June 2024, ESA’s original Negative Ions at the Lunar Surface (NILS) instrument touched down on the surface of the Moon aboard China’s Chang’e 6 lunar lander. The instrument […] The post ESA Seeks Commercial Provider to Transport Payload to the Moon appeared first on European Spaceflight.
Satellite imaging industry’s next challenge: getting systems to talk to each otherExecutives say lack of incentives and interoperability slows ‘tipping and cueing’ across vendors The post Satellite imaging industry’s next challenge: getting systems to talk to each other appeared first on SpaceNews.
I Am Artemis: Erik RichardsListen to this audio excerpt from Erik Richards, Near Space Network Mission Manager: For Erik Richards, supporting NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission to the Moon and back is the culmination of a career spent helping spacecraft communicate with Earth. Like many kids who grew up at the height of the Space Shuttle Program, Richards dreamed of spaceflight — a dream that eventually took him from the remote McMurdo Station in Antarctica to […]
















