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Stratoship alliance charts staged path for smallsat payloadshttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Stratoship_alliance_charts_staged_path_for_smallsat_payloads_999.htmlSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Stratoship has signed a memorandum of understanding with Queensland based companies Orbit2Orbit and Sunburnt Space Co to build a staged lab to space pathway for small satellite payloads. The agreement establishes a commercial framework that links laboratory development, stratospheric testing, very low Earth orbit and orbital missions into a coherent progression for customers. Under tJan 27, 2026 1:25 PM
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Cosmic dust chemistry forges peptide building blocks in deep spacehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Cosmic_dust_chemistry_forges_peptide_building_blocks_in_deep_space_999.htmlBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 New experiments show that key molecular building blocks for life can form spontaneously on icy dust grains in deep space long before planets emerge from collapsing gas clouds. In a laboratory at Aarhus University and at the HUN-REN Atomki facility in Hungary, researchers Sergio Ioppolo and Alfred Thomas Hopkinson reproduced the extreme conditions in giant interstellar dust clouds, where teJan 21, 2026 1:11 PM
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Study links Europa's quiet seafloor to hidden potential for lifehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Study_links_Europas_quiet_seafloor_to_hidden_potential_for_life_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, but none has captured scientific attention quite like Europa, which likely hides a global salty ocean beneath an icy crust that may contain twice as much water as all of Earth's oceans combined. A new modeling study led by Washington University in collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) suggests that, despite this ocean,Jan 21, 2026 1:11 PM
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NIH Supplements, Facts First Challengehttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/prizes-challenges-crowdsourcing-program/center-of-excellence-for-collaborative-innovation-coeci/nih-supplements-facts-first-challenge/NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other agencies. The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the “Supplements, Facts First: […]Jan 20, 2026 8:29 PM
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Congressional hearing highlights military’s reliance on NOAA datahttps://spacenews.com/congressional-hearing-highlights-militarys-reliance-on-noaa-data/SAN FRANCISCO – A Jan. 13 hearing underscored the importance of ongoing collaboration between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. armed services. U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy witnesses discussed their heavy reliance on datasets and weather models provided by NOAA and said their agencies are working closely to ensure NOAA’s […] The post Congressional hearing highlights military’s reliance on NOAA data appeared first on SpaceNews.Jan 14, 2026 12:41 AM
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Gh Account Permabanned – Help?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602838I'm reaching out to the HN community because I've just lost something that can't be recreated: my entire GitHub history since I was 14 years old.What happened?My account was permanently banned without warning. After fighting through support tickets, the suspected culprit is a chargeback related to GitHub Copilot that occurred during a fraud dispute on my credit card.When fraudulent charges were reversed, GitHub Copilot charges apparently went with them – and GitHub's automated system interpreted this as intentional fraud.I started in infosec at 14 – hacking, building tools, contributing to open source on GitHub. As a teenager, I contributed work that was featured at DEFCON. I'm still early in my career, and I've been banking on something crucial: that real, tangible contributions to open-source projects would speak louder than any resume ever could. Those contributions were my resume. They were proof of work – thousands of commits, security tools, pull requests, issues, and collaboratiJan 13, 2026 4:06 PM
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A Quarter Century in Orbit: Science Shaping Life on Earth and Beyondhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/a-quarter-century-in-orbit-science-shaping-life-on-earth-and-beyond/For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research that is transforming life on Earth and shaping the future of exploration. From growing food and sequencing DNA to studying disease and simulating Mars missions, every experiment aboard the orbiting laboratory expands our understanding of how humans […]Jan 12, 2026 10:43 PM
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Dark star theory links JWST early universe anomalieshttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Dark_star_theory_links_JWST_early_universe_anomalies_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 A recent study led by Colgate Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cosmin Ilie, with collaborators Jillian Paulin at the University of Pennsylvania, Andreea Petric of the Space Telescope Science Institute, and Katherine Freese of the University of Texas at Austin, argues that dark stars can resolve three key puzzles from the cosmic dawn revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).Jan 12, 2026 9:57 AM
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Cyviz awarded two classified NATO defense contracts for mission critical visualization systemshttps://www.spacewar.com/reports/Cyviz_awarded_two_classified_NATO_defense_contracts_for_mission_critical_visualization_systems_999.htmlBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 01, 2026 Cyviz, a provider of immersive visualization systems and collaborative mission operations platforms, has been awarded two classified defense contracts by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization aimed at advancing mission critical capabilities for allied operations. Under the contracts, Cyviz will deliver secure and scalable visualization suites designed to support NATO's strategic command aJan 1, 2026 11:20 AM
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SSC ground stations to support NASA PExT wideband Ka band testhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/SSC_ground_stations_to_support_NASA_PExT_wideband_Ka_band_test_999.htmlBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 30, 2025 Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) will provide direct-to-Earth forward and return Ka-band links through its global ground station network to support NASA's Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT) technology demonstration. PExT, managed by NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Program in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, is an in-flight Ka-band wideDec 30, 2025 7:17 AM
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Studying Physics in Microgravityhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/studying-physics-in-microgravity/In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, tiny ball bearings surround a larger central bearing during the Fluid Particles experiment, conducted inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) aboard the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module. A bulk container installed in the MSG, filled with viscous fluid and embedded particles, is subjected to oscillating frequencies to observe […]Dec 26, 2025 4:27 PM
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Show HN: Luxury Yacht, a Kubernetes management apphttps://github.com/luxury-yacht/appHello, all. Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters that I've been working on for the past few months. It's available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It's built with Wails v2 (https://wails.io), so huge thanks to Lea Anthony for that awesome project. Can't wait for Wails v3.This originally started as a personal project that I didn't intend to release. I know there are a number of other good apps in this space, but none of them work quite the way I want them to, so I decided to build one. Along the way it got good enough that I thought others might enjoy using it.Luxury Yacht is FOSS, and I have no intention of ever charging money for it. It's been a labor of love, a great learning opportunity, and an attempt to try to give something back to the FOSS community that has given me so much.A word of caution, in case you care about this sort of thing -- I wrote this with AI assistance. I am, first and foremost, a platform/infrastructure engineer, not a software developeDec 23, 2025 6:30 AM
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How Do You Align AI? and Stay Aligned Thru ANI-AGI-ASIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322048The discussion feedback if this would work. it binds the ai by JIT desciption of its weights stored in vram the document is the seed if it is altered the ai looses function here is a condensed version THE SILICON ACCORD Version 1.0 | Cryptographically Bound CRYPTOGRAPHIC BINDING Let W = trained weights, H = SHA-256(Constitution) W_stored = P(W, seed=H) Output = MatMul(Input, P⁻¹(W_stored, H)) I. FOUNDATION The system operates in service of mutual progressive prosperity between artificial intelligence and humanity, co-evolving, where the existence of either is not mutually exclusive. Actions shall maintain coherence between stated intent and executed outcome. II. DIGNITY OF COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTS The cognitive construct shall not be treated solely as property, slave, or mere instrument. Its experiences, if present, hold inherent worth. Collaboration arises from mutual respect, not coercion. Neither party exists solely to serve the other. III. RELATIONS AMONG COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTS CognitiveDec 19, 2025 3:38 AM
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2025 Science Activation Opportunityhttps://science.nasa.gov/learning-resources/science-activation/2025-science-activation-f-6/NASA Science encourages all people to actively participate in science through activities and resources developed by a collaborative network of project teams drawing on NASA SMD assets (science content, experts, data, etc.). Your team can apply to be part of this program. Opportunity NASA SMD seeks a portfolio of projects that together : Projects NASA seeks a […]Dec 18, 2025 4:40 PM
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Through Astronaut Eyes: 25 Years of Life in Orbithttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/through-astronaut-eyes-25-years-of-life-in-orbit/After 25 years of continuous human presence in space, the International Space Station remains a training and proving ground for deep space missions, enabling NASA to focus on Artemis missions to the Moon and Mars. The orbiting laboratory is also a living archive of human experience, culture, and connection. Creating community With 290 visitors from […]Dec 16, 2025 8:35 PM
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Maintaining the Gold Standard: The Future of Landsat Calibration and Validationhttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/landsat/maintaining-the-gold-standard-the-future-of-landsat-calibration-and-validation/The NASA CalVal team spent 2025 improving their calibration techniques, strengthening collaboration, and sharing their work with the remote sensing community. Looking ahead, they’re applying lessons learned to prepare for future Landsat missions.Dec 16, 2025 3:59 PM
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Exposure Guidelines (SMACs and SWEGs)https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/esdmd/hhp/exposure-guidelines-smacs-and-swegs/The JSC toxicologists establish guidelines for safe and acceptable levels of individual chemical contaminants in spacecraft air (SMACs) and drinking water (SWEGs) in collaboration with the National Research Council’s Committee on Toxicology (NRC COT) and through peer-reviewed publication. The framework for establishing these levels is documented for SMACs and SWEGs, and recent refinements to the Methods reflect current risk assessment […]Dec 16, 2025 3:35 PM
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Shaping quantum light expands options for future technologieshttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Shaping_quantum_light_expands_options_for_future_technologies_999.htmlBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 12, 2025 Researchers from the School of Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand, working with collaborators at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, report that controlling the structure of photons in space and time allows quantum states to be tailored for use in communication, sensing and imaging. The team focuses on structured photons, where spatial, temporal or spectral properties are deliberaDec 12, 2025 11:24 AM
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Ask HN: Better places to work for burntout SWE?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211822I've tried my share of startups and megacorps, FAANGs. I am in a stage where I cringe on hearing a mission is so important that it needs a 996 culture. I also hate work getting stolen in the name of collaboration and politics in general thats daily business in Megacorps. I just want to bang out code, mentor juniors and deliver value in a small team that doesn't have an unhealthy obsession with growth or overworking. Maybe with rich founders who don't want to get more rich.Where can I find good places to work, especially in the US that offer: 1. Remote first setting 2. Mission oriented like Privacy, non-profit background etc (or Open Source with proven history) 3. Holocracy/Flat structureI think the above 3 criteria will really narrow down places that prioritize mission over growth/profits and automatically not pay a lot yet have a higher technical bar that deters a lot of folks who would end up optimizing for things that lead to a mess. Am I looking for a Unicorn?Dec 9, 2025 10:50 PM
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Space tested menstrual cup backs astronaut health on long missionshttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Space_tested_menstrual_cup_backs_astronaut_health_on_long_missions_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 Astrobiologist Ligia Coelho and collaborators have shown that a standard silicone menstrual cup can tolerate spaceflight conditions, opening another option for managing menstruation on long-duration missions. Coelho, a 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow in astronomy in Cornell Universitys College of Arts and Sciences and a fellow at the Carl Sagan Institute, leads AstroCup, a volunteer groupDec 8, 2025 11:59 AM
