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europeanspaceflight.com
Germany Breaks Ground on One of Two GOVSATCOM Hub Locationshttps://europeanspaceflight.com/germany-breaks-ground-on-one-of-two-govsatcom-hub-locations/Germany has broken ground on a GOVSATCOM Hub facility in Cologne, with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia committing to investing up to €50 million in the project. The European Union’s GOVSATCOM system officially became operational in January 2026 and is designed to provide sovereign, reliable, secure, and cost-effective satellite communications services for European government and […] The post Germany Breaks Ground on One of Two GOVSATCOM Hub Locations appeared first on European Spaceflight.
Jun 18, 2026 8:34 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How do you find new books to read?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48590844I'm looking to update my reading list of 2026 to include anything interesting that was recently, or about to be, published.The internet is of course full of lists about the "most anticipated" or "the hottest" books of the year/summer/etc. But these are not what I'm after.My reading habits are a bit out of sync with the mainstream and rarely feature in lists of most popular books. (If it helps, some of my favorites include Apple in China, The Chip War, Spec Ops [by McRaven], and Chokepoints.)I thought Goodreads would be the place to find stuff like that but was shockingly lacking.How do you guys find (good) books to read?
Jun 18, 2026 8:10 PM
spacenews.com
EQT to acquire Exolaunchhttps://spacenews.com/eqt-to-acquire-exolaunch/Private equity firm EQT is acquiring Exolaunch, a company that has handled the rideshare launches of hundreds of satellites, to help it meet growing launch demand. The post EQT to acquire Exolaunch appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jun 18, 2026 7:45 PM
science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Lucy Reveals Wobbling, Peanut-Shaped Asteroidhttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/nasas-lucy-reveals-wobbling-peanut-shaped-asteroid/Even small asteroids lead complex lives. During its flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft revealed the asteroid to be a wobbly, peanut-shaped body that has undergone a lot of activity in its relatively short history. Formed as fragments coalesced after a violent collision 155 million years ago, the asteroid was transformed by the […]
Jun 18, 2026 6:04 PM
science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Lucy Reveals Wobbling, Peanut-Shaped Asteroidhttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/lucy/nasas-lucy-reveals-wobbling-peanut-shaped-asteroid/Even small asteroids lead complex lives. During its flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft revealed the asteroid to be a wobbly, peanut-shaped body that has undergone a lot of activity in its relatively short history. Formed as fragments coalesced after a violent collision 155 million years ago, the asteroid was transformed by the […]
Jun 18, 2026 6:04 PM
marketplace.visualstudio.com
Show HN: writing tasks with focused context + instructions = sharper AIhttps://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sdevries.prompt-foundryTo get an AI to do a task well, you need to give it the right context and the right task description. I've had a lot of struggles working in a large codebase getting AI to follow the existing patterns and architecture. So I started building a VS Code / Cursor extension that lets you quickly snap together sub prompts/instructions relevant to a specific task. After seeing the value of this, I realized you could make those sub prompts more customizable by using a liquid syntax engine.That worked fine for a few days, until the original context blocks got stale as the project progressed. I wrote an MCP server that can update those blocks, creating a feedback loop. A few days later I added an amend option too, so the AI can write a log and decision record as it goes.At this point I realized there were a lot of opportunities here: my AI isn't spending the first 5 minutes doing research, I've got better control over my context window, there's less irrelevant data leaking in from my agents.md f
Jun 18, 2026 5:08 PM
spacenews.com
A legacy to help solve the space workforce pipelinehttps://spacenews.com/a-legacy-to-help-solve-the-space-workforce-pipeline/In this episode of Space Minds, David Ariosto talks with Mike Kincaid, president and chief executive of the Challenger Center. They discuss the space workforce pipeline and the center’s role […] The post A legacy to help solve the space workforce pipeline appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jun 18, 2026 2:37 PM
spacenews.com
What the satellite servicing economy can borrow from carbon creditshttps://spacenews.com/what-the-satellite-servicing-economy-can-borrow-from-carbon-credits/In January 2026 alone, the Federal Communications Commission authorized 15,000 Starlink Gen2 satellites. Starcloud has filed for 88,000 orbital data center satellites. SpaceX has filed for 1 million. There is […] The post What the satellite servicing economy can borrow from carbon credits appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jun 18, 2026 1:00 PM
science.nasa.gov
Hubble Glimpses Merging Galaxy Clustershttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-glimpses-merging-galaxy-clusters/This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy cluster, called CL0016+1609 or MACS J0018.5+1626, that is very bright at X-ray wavelengths and is one of the most extensively studied clusters at X-ray and radio wavelengths. The X-ray observations of this cluster revealed that it is two clusters merging along our line of sight. Researchers […]
Jun 18, 2026 11:36 AM
bing.com
5 Best Currency ETFs to Buy Nowhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb7d5cfd34fedae0eeabdcccd959a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoney.usnews.com%2Finvesting%2Farticles%2Fbest-currency-etfs-to-buy-now&c=1655350009743668319&mkt=en-usSome funds issue a K-1 at tax time, adding complexity for taxable account holders. Dollar-bullish funds profit when the dollar strengthens, limiting their usefulness. Some ETFs use futures contracts; ...
Jun 18, 2026 7:51 AM
maximumroulette.com
Show HN: Matrix Engine WGPU – focus on mobile]https://maximumroulette.com/apps/webgpu/examples.htmlHi ,I made 'MatrixEngineWgpu' webgpu engine in javascript ("The Beast" i added alias ;) ). Objective is full support for all browsers (with webgpu support) specially mobile browsers. I use vanilla js thats very important in context of performance. 2 years ago it was classic programming (without ai) but i involved ai in last 6 months. Thats not main subject.I see in last yeasr that quality of web games are catastrophic even in promo videos i see buggy moments. Almost every webGPU examples or graphics+physics are very pure or not runnable on mobile devices. Theres also opinion that web can't produce high quality/performance app. Thats not true and that's i wanna to prove. My GraphicsCard is 13 years old and thats good when you make optimised stuff.What is characteristics for "The Beast" in dev zone: - Every feature is tested on mobile device and balanced to be on "edge". Must pass mobile render. - On linkedin i see every day some new features doned in one of major engines and i imitates/
Jun 17, 2026 9:21 PM
geturbacon.dev
Show HN: Bacon – an ad network that pays developers while their Claude workshttps://geturbacon.devHi, Im Oscar. So I built Bacon cos like many of you ,I spend a lot of time staring at my terminal(s) waiting for claude code to finish.But first, shout out to Andrew McCalip (@andrewmccalip) who built kickbacks.ai. He came up with the spinner ad and revenue share model, but as a VS code extension. But tbh Id rather not use VS code, so i built the terminal native version as a personal challenge.So Bacon does that, it shows you ads on claude code. There are five surfaces, from least to most intrusive: spinner, statusline, strip, card, and marquee. When an ad shows up, you get a 50% cut of whatever the advertiser paid for that slot.I built in a few hard constraints. Every surface shares one rule: the " Sponsored" marker ships with the slot. Also, the server sets the price, not the advertiser. Your 50% cut is a floor, not a bid, and neither side can move that number. So Im kinda trying to build a economic system to bridge both supply and demand and favor the most favorable ads for the devs
Jun 17, 2026 4:05 PM
nasa.gov
Hubble Sees Swarm of Galaxieshttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-sees-swarm-of-galaxies/Looking somewhat like a swarm of bees returning to their hive, this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released on June 12, 2026, features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211. Galaxy clusters like MACS0329-0211 are important signposts in the story of how the structure of the universe evolved, and are the ultimate telescopic lenses, placing gravitationally lensed galaxies from the […]
Jun 17, 2026 2:56 PM
scaleninja.com
Show HN: Noject – menubar app to stop drive ejections on macOShttps://scaleninja.com/noject/Hi HN, I built Noject, a small native menu bar app for macOS that prevents accidental ejects of always-on external drives.I made it for my own Mac mini setup with NVMe external drives that are always plugged-in and behave like internal storage. Noject lets you protect those volumes and reject any normal eject/unmount attempts from Finder, Disk Utility, Terminal, and other apps.It uses Apple's Disk Arbitration framework, protects volumes by UUID, and has an "Eject Once" bypass for when you really do want to disconnect something. It is privacy first and does not need to read the contents of your drives.Available for lifetime and free/fair download from the website https://scaleninja.com/noject/
Jun 17, 2026 12:15 PM
europeanspaceflight.com
France Awards Eutelsat €138 Million Contract to Provide Secure Communicationshttps://europeanspaceflight.com/france-awards-eutelsat-e138-million-contract-to-provide-secure-communications/European satellite operator Eutelsat has secured a €138 million contract from France’s Ministry of the Armed Forces under a €1 billion framework agreement signed in June 2025. The 10-year framework agreement with France’s defence procurement agency, the DGA, covers priority access to capacity on Eutelsat’s OneWeb constellation, a constellation of more than 600 satellites in […] The post France Awards Eutelsat €138 Million Contract to Provide Secure Communications appeared first on European Spaceflight.
Jun 17, 2026 11:04 AM
science.nasa.gov
Low Water at San Carlos Reservoirhttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/low-water-at-san-carlos-reservoir/Drought and water releases drained the Arizona reservoir to levels that have led to widespread fish deaths.
Jun 17, 2026 4:01 AM
bing.com
Best SaaS Stocks to Buy in 2026 and How to Invest in Themhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb45922ac4c48b68aa1bbc3155d6b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Finvesting%2Fstock-market%2Fmarket-sectors%2Finformation-technology%2Fsaas-stocks%2F&c=9705004255577303815&mkt=en-usThe subscription business model now dominates much of the software industry and that has fueled the rise of software-as-a-service (SaaS) stocks. SaaS companies sell cloud-based software through ...
Jun 16, 2026 11:02 PM
science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roastedhttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-catches-exoplanet-getting-roasted/One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter with an extremely elliptical orbit that sweeps close by its Sun-like star. The research team is presenting their study and preliminary findings Tuesday at […]
Jun 16, 2026 9:15 PM
spacenews.com
Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1 lunar landerhttps://spacenews.com/astrobotic-unveils-griffin-1-lunar-lander/Astrobotic showed off the lunar lander it plans to launch later this year that will be the vanguard of NASA’s new lunar base ambitions. The post Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1 lunar lander appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jun 16, 2026 8:48 PM
pacwich.dev
Show HN: Pacwich – lightweight new monorepo tooling on top of Bun, NPM, or pnpmhttps://pacwich.dev/I developed a package simply called bun-workspaces that worked on top of Bun workspaces directly with zero required config, using plain package.json scripts for orchestration.I have re-developed this package into pacwich, which supports Bun, npm, or pnpm. I decided it would be a better direction for it to be decoupled from a particular package manager, so it needed a new name (but I wanted to keep my logo).I write about the development strategy and my engineering philosophy (including disclosing the manner in which AI assists and my approach to not vibing this) in the Security page and the launch blog post about the pivot, which I linked on the home page in the note about the bun-workspaces migration.More is to come, including a way to compose scripts into more complex workflows rather than running one named script in parallel/series.
Jun 16, 2026 8:38 PM