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Apply now to ESA's Junior Professional Programmehttps://www.esa.int/About_Us/Careers_at_ESA/Apply_now_to_ESA_s_Junior_Professional_ProgrammeAre you passionate about space and looking to build a long-term career in the European space sector? Do you have less than three years of professional experience and a Master’s degree? The European Space Agency is offering a unique opportunity through its Junior Professional Programme (JPP), designed to cultivate the next generation of space professionals. If you dream of contributing to cutting-edge space missions and working in an international, dynamic environment, this programme is your gateway to an exciting future at ESA. Apply now to join us as a Junior Professional!
Jun 30, 2026 3:30 PM
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Starry Chandelier Clusterhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/starry-chandelier-cluster/This 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 […]
Jun 30, 2026 3:02 PM
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Time to say goodbye to Sentinel-1Ahttps://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/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.
Jun 30, 2026 12:30 PM
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Superintellignce is still decades awayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48731740In 2022 - I thought that we got closer to AGI with LLMs, but it turned out LLMs were more like the engine of intelligence than intelligence itself.In 2023 - I started to understand how important memory is to the system, and the intelligence is a storage problem as much as it is a processing problem.In 2024 - I started to realize that AGI is the wrong term all together and that intelligence can't be solved with scale alone.In 2025 - I started to understand just how many components needs to work together to build a real agent. We started calling them agents because they have many different moving components nothing else described them. RAG became obsolete as it was too rigid to keep up. Not only we needed an LLM, memory & orchestrator, but also perception & RAI.Now in 2026 I am starting to understand just how complex intelligence is, which I would have understood sooner if I took more biology courses in uni. I remember an episode of "love, death & robots" from 2022, in which a human scie
Jun 30, 2026 12:26 PM
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ESA to seek lunar mapping capability for Argonaut landerhttps://spacenews.com/esa-to-seek-lunar-mapping-capability-for-argonaut-lander/MILAN — The European Space Agency will rely on external lunar topographic data during the design phase of its Argonaut lunar lander, and possibly for its first mission, while working […] The post ESA to seek lunar mapping capability for Argonaut lander appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jun 29, 2026 3:24 PM
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This Month at ESA: June 2026https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/06/This_Month_at_ESA_June_2026What did space have in store for Europe this month? This June, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano was named pilot of NASA's Artemis III mission, Ariane 6 set a new European launch record, Proba-3 returned to operations, ESA satellites detected early signs of El Niño, Euclid unveiled its most detailed view yet of the Milky Way's galactic centre, and Sophie Adenot reached the halfway point of her εpsilon mission aboard the International Space Station.
Jun 29, 2026 2:00 PM
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Cunard Unveils Lineup of Entertainment Residencies for 2027http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89b2d1b4794d2fbc65bcb93d0230e6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.travelmarketreport.com%2Fcruises%2Farticles%2Fcunard-unveils-lineup-of-entertainment-residencies-for-2027&c=11128621265078838655&mkt=en-usCunard has unveiled its 2027 entertainment program, including a new lineup of entertainment residencies across its fleet. Developed in partnership with some of the world’s leading cultural ...
Jun 28, 2026 5:00 PM
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Ask HN: Options for an independent AI researcher with strong results?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689261I'm outside the AI industry, outside of academia, and no easy contacts into relevant areas. My background lends itself to exploring AI & reasonable level of care checking results. I was focusing on building practical useful things for a portfolio to help change industries mid-career, but that has become something a little different now.The exploration has led to an analytical framework that appears useful more broadly for looking at neural representational models. (It's not a model architecture or training method, benchmark, or prompt engineering.) It is a way of analyzing internal representations through the mapping of structure-preserving connections, to transport them to a frame of reference outside the model, exposing some stable relationships, while not being model-specific or require training something else.It has survived attempts at invalidation, generated useful predictions and functioning interventions, and has continued to reveal additional applications the more I do. There
Jun 26, 2026 5:23 PM
europeanspaceflight.com
NASA Delivers Braking Engines for ESA Rosalind Franklin Mars Missionhttps://europeanspaceflight.com/nasa-delivers-braking-engines-for-esa-rosalind-franklin-mars-mission/NASA has delivered the first braking engines for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosalind Franklin mission to Mars. The braking engines are one of three major contributions NASA has committed to the mission, along with launch services and Radioisotope Heater Units (RHUs) to keep the rover’s instruments warm during cold Martian nights. The US space […] The post NASA Delivers Braking Engines for ESA Rosalind Franklin Mars Mission appeared first on European Spaceflight.
Jun 26, 2026 2:51 PM
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Weather Stream releases first light imagery from GEMS2 microwave radiometerhttps://spacenews.com/weather-stream-releases-first-light-imagery-from-gems2-microwave-radiometer/SAN FRANCISCO – Weather Stream, a Boulder, Colorado, commercial weather satellite operator, is collecting global atmospheric observations with its GEMS2-Amethyst satellite. Launched March 30 aboard the SpaceX Transporter 16 rideshare […] The post Weather Stream releases first light imagery from GEMS2 microwave radiometer appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jun 25, 2026 10:06 PM
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My website gets more attacks than human visitorshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677487I run a small self-hosted website on a Raspberry Pi 4B at home. A few weeks ago I started wondering: who actually visits a website in 2026? Not just humans. Everything. So I built a public observability dashboard on top of GoAccess that separates traffic into four categories: human visitors, search engine crawlers, AI retrieval agents, and automated attacks. The numbers from the last 17 days surprised me:4,523 human visits 6,409 automated attack attempts Thousands of crawler requests from search engines and AI systemsThe attacks aren't sophisticated. They're mostly automated scanners probing for .env files, WordPress admin panels, and cloud credentials — hitting every public IP on the internet regardless of what's actually running there. What I found more interesting was the AI agent behavior. AI retrieval agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Amazonbot) behave differently from traditional search crawlers. They hit semantic files aggressively — llms.txt, sitemap.xml, JSON-LD struct
Jun 25, 2026 6:35 PM
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Small satellite operators confront a bottleneck to space accesshttps://spacenews.com/small-satellite-operators-confront-a-bottleneck-to-space-access/For years, small satellite manufacturers have built their business plans around the idea that SpaceX could launch their payload to space. Through its Falcon 9 Transporter and Bandwagon rideshare missions, […] The post Small satellite operators confront a bottleneck to space access appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jun 25, 2026 4:01 PM
europeanspaceflight.com
Rocket Factory Augsburg Details RFA ONE Upgrades and RFA TWO Planshttps://europeanspaceflight.com/rocket-factory-augsburg-details-rfa-one-upgrades-and-rfa-two-plans/During an OHB Capital Markets Update in May, German launch services provider Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) outlined its planned path towards developing a fully reusable heavy-lift rocket called RFA TWO. RFA was founded as a spin-off of OHB, which still holds a 65% stake in the company. It is currently developing its RFA ONE rocket, […] The post Rocket Factory Augsburg Details RFA ONE Upgrades and RFA TWO Plans appeared first on European Spaceflight.
Jun 24, 2026 2:31 PM
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Vast signs additional partners for commercial space station microgravity researchhttps://spacenews.com/vast-signs-additional-partners-for-commercial-space-station-microgravity-research/Commercial space station company Vast announced June 24 the addition of several companies and organizations to its network of partners for microgravity research and manufacturing. The post Vast signs additional partners for commercial space station microgravity research appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jun 24, 2026 1:42 PM
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Vantor selects BAE Systems to build next-generation imaging satelliteshttps://spacenews.com/vantor-selects-bae-systems-to-build-next-generation-imaging-satellites/WASHINGTON — Vantor has chosen BAE Systems to build its next generation of high-resolution imaging satellites. The selection reunites Vantor with the former Ball Aerospace business that helped develop DigitalGlobe’s […] The post Vantor selects BAE Systems to build next-generation imaging satellites appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jun 24, 2026 12:30 PM
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SpaceX launches secretive Starfall reentry demo missionhttps://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-secretive-starfall-reentry-demo-mission/SpaceX launched the first test flight of its Starfall reentry capsule June 23, but the mission remained as secretive as the program itself. The post SpaceX launches secretive Starfall reentry demo mission appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jun 24, 2026 11:39 AM
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ESA’s Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded hearthttps://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/06/ESA_s_Euclid_captures_the_Milky_Way_s_crowded_heartThis is the largest high-resolution photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy’s centre in visible light. It was taken on 23 March 2025 by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. Packed with more than 60 million stars, this image opens the door for scientists to confirm the existence of any exoplanet found in this region and measure its mass using tiny changes in starlight over time.
Jun 24, 2026 10:00 AM
europeanspaceflight.com
ESA Details Next Steps for Agency’s Gateway Contributionshttps://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-details-next-steps-for-agencys-gateway-contributions/The European Space Agency (ESA) has made initial decisions on the future of its contributions to NASA’s Gateway space station after the US space agency “paused” the programme. The agency largely expects to proceed with developing most of its planned Gateway hardware while awaiting the results of studies on how best to repurpose each element. […] The post ESA Details Next Steps for Agency’s Gateway Contributions appeared first on European Spaceflight.
Jun 23, 2026 3:38 PM
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I Am Artemis: Jason Petersonhttps://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/i-am-artemis-jason-peterson/Jason Peterson’s responsibilities for NASA’s Artemis II mission went beyond his usual role as the range operations manager at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Peterson credits his military experience with preparing him for the 12-to-16-hour workdays that helped bring the Artemis II test flight around the Moon and into view for audiences around the world.
Jun 23, 2026 2:27 PM