As geopolitics reshape space, SpinLaunch sees an openingSpinLaunch CEO Massimiliano “Massi” Ladovaz paints an ambitious picture of a rapidly shifting space industry driven as much by geopolitics and sovereignty as by engineering innovation. Ladovaz argued that SpinLaunch’s […] The post As geopolitics reshape space, SpinLaunch sees an opening appeared first on SpaceNews.
NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New YorkStudents in New York will hear from NASA astronaut Jessica Meir as she answers their prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 11:05 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 28, and will stream live on the agency’s Learn With NASA YouTube channel. This event […]
Show HN: Cyoda-go – application platform in Go without the Temporal/Kafka glueThis started out as an experiment. Reading Simon Willison's blog on where StrongDM was going with dark factories and Digital Twin Universeshttps://simonw.substack.com/p/how-strongdms-ai-team-build-se...I got thinking that, hey, what if we built a digital twin of our enterprise application platform Cyoda? With an in-memory local Cyoda service, it would make it much easier for people to get started building Cyoda apps, and rapidly speed up development.I also wanted to see how far one can go using agentic engineering to build that out, thinking it's a good use-case since the tool wasn't (originally) destined for production.I'm a Java/Kotlin/Spring/Cassandra person, so I decided to write it in Go, because I've never written a line of Go. This would ensure that I stay hands off from the code and see this from the perspective of an architect and project manager.But after the in-memory storage engine was built, I quickly realized that it would be straightforward to implement a postgres plugin
NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in FloridaStudents in Florida will hear from NASA astronaut Chris Williams as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 11 a.m. EDT Friday, May 8, and will stream live on the agency’s Learn With NASA YouTube channel. This event is hosted […]
NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Missouri StudentsStudents in Missouri will hear from NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 10:50 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 30, and will stream live on the agency’s Learn With NASA YouTube channel. This […]
Former Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice to lead AstrionHuntsville-based defense contractor focuses on systems engineering and integration, and space mission assurance The post Former Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice to lead Astrion appeared first on SpaceNews.
Relativity, Hermeus, Astrion and Divergent executives join Fortastra C-suiteSAN FRANCISCO – Los Angeles startup Fortastra has hired veterans from Relativity Space, Hermeus, Astrion and Divergent Technologies to design and operate maneuverable spacecraft for on-orbit security. Josh Jetter, former Relativity senior director of avionics engineering and manufacturing, will be Fortastra’s chief technology officer. Sahil Desai, Fortastra’s vice president of product, was Divergent Technologies’ vice president […] The post Relativity, Hermeus, Astrion and Divergent executives join Fortastra C-suite appeared first on SpaceNews.
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4838-4844: Wrapping Up the Boxwork TerrainWritten by Deborah Padgett, MSL Operations Product Ground System Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, March 20, 2026 Curiosity has just concluded a very intense week of science observations and engineering activities, as it wraps up its monthslong investigation of the Martian boxwork terrain. Three days of planning this week […]
Golden Dome and the velocity race: Why ground-based optics are the key to mission persistenceWhile often described as a moonshot for missile defense, the Golden Dome for America mission is in reality something even more challenging: an exercise in disciplined systems engineering under threat. Hypersonic glide vehicles, maneuvering ballistic missiles and complex decoys are compressing timelines while raising the stakes for any gap in accuracy. In this environment, the […] The post Golden Dome and the velocity race: Why ground-based optics are the key to mission persistence appeared first on SpaceNews.
Launch HN: Sitefire (YC W26) – Automating actions to improve AI visibilityHi HN! We're Vincent and Jochen from sitefire (https://sitefire.ai). Our platform makes it easy for brands to improve their visibility in AI search.We’ve been working together for years and have backgrounds in RL/optimization at Stanford and software engineering. We came to this idea after speaking with marketing teams who were seeing declining traffic due to Google’s AI Overviews and didn’t know what to do.This space can feel esoteric. Many case studies, few actual studies. Constant battle against myths (e.g. you need a llms.txt vs. you don't need a llms.txt) and "GEO hacks". We try to be more data-driven. And we try to be more bold and build a system that not only monitors, but actually improves traffic from AI search.While Google performs a single search, AI search engines expand the user prompt into 3-10 fan-out queries. The sourced pages are ranked using a classified algorithm similar to Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RFF). Finally, the LLMs skim the pages and decide what snippets to cit
From Service to Space Systems: A Pathways Journey to NASAFor Corey Elmore, the path to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center did not begin in engineering. It began in service. Today he serves as a NASA Pathways engineering intern in the Technical Processes and Tools Branch (KSC-NE-TA) at Kennedy Space Center. Through the Pathways program, he is gaining hands-on experience supporting the engineering environments, technical tools […]
Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot gamesI’ve been working on this for about a year through four major rewrites. Godogen is a pipeline that takes a text prompt, designs the architecture, generates 2D/3D assets, writes the GDScript, and tests it visually. The output is a complete, playable Godot 4 project.Getting LLMs to reliably generate functional games required solving three specific engineering bottlenecks:1. The Training Data Scarcity: LLMs barely know GDScript. It has ~850 classes and a Python-like syntax that will happily let a model hallucinate Python idioms that fail to compile. To fix this, I built a custom reference system: a hand-written language spec, full API docs converted from Godot's XML source, and a quirks database for engine behaviors you can't learn from docs alone. Because 850 classes blow up the context window, the agent lazy-loads only the specific APIs it needs at runtime.2. The Build-Time vs. Runtime State: Scenes are generated by headless scripts that build the node graph in memory and serialize it t
European Defence Agency Awards Contract for First VLEO Military Satellite ConceptThe European Defence Agency (EDA) has awarded a €15.65 million research contract to a consortium led by Spanish aerospace engineering company Sener to design a military satellite specifically optimised for very low Earth orbit (VLEO). VLEO is the region of space between approximately 150 and 350 kilometres above the surface of Earth. Operating in this […] The post European Defence Agency Awards Contract for First VLEO Military Satellite Concept appeared first on European Spaceflight.
A stellar year for talent: more than 400 job opportunities in 2026With more than 400 positions to be published in 2026, the European Space Agency is launching a recruitment drive to support ESA’s programmes, missions and strategic initiatives following the 2025 Ministerial Council in Bremen. To help make these projects a reality, we will be recruiting many new colleagues in engineering and science, as well as support services! Your next big opportunity could be here, so read on to find out more. You can also set up a job alert to be the first one to know when opportunities are published.
The perils of political impatience in the Artemis programRecent engineering setbacks, specifically regarding helium system issues associated with the improper flow of helium into the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s upper stage, and persistent hydrogen leaks, have forced NASA to delay the crewed Artemis 2 mission to no earlier than April. While frustrating for the public, these delays are a necessary byproduct of […] The post The perils of political impatience in the Artemis program appeared first on SpaceNews.
Flammability Testing Configuration and Approach of Barrier MaterialAssemblies Designed for Space Flight ApplicationsThe NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) partnered with Materials and Processes and Flammability subject matter experts from the Johnson Space Center, White Sands Test Facility, and the Marshall Space Flight Center to design and develop a test for evaluating the effectiveness of material assemblies to serve as a barrier between a potential cabin ignition […]
About Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program (TACP)TACP Benefits Foundation for disruptive technologies: Placing emphasis on transformative concepts lays the groundwork for revolutionary advancements in aviation. Accelerated innovation in aerospace: Developing next-generation engineering methodologies and digital tools enables faster, more efficient design, testing, and certification processes. Strong collaborative ecosystem: TACP fosters partnerships among NASA, academia, industry, and government, creating a powerful network […]
Hardware is no longer the problem holding back space-based data centers — the supply chain isOrbital and lunar data centers are often framed as engineering challenges or launch economics problems. Those matter, but they are not the limiting factor. The real bottleneck is the absence of a procurement and logistics architecture capable of sourcing, qualifying, transporting, assembling and sustaining the technologies these systems require. If companies are going to realize […] The post Hardware is no longer the problem holding back space-based data centers — the supply chain is appeared first on SpaceNews.
NASA delivers harsh assessment of botched Boeing Starliner test flightWashington, United States (AFP) Feb 19, 2026 NASA on Thursday blamed what it called engineering vulnerabilities in Boeing's Starliner spacecraft along with internal agency mistakes in a sharply critical report assessing a botched mission that left two astronauts stranded in space. The US space agency labeled the 2024 test flight of the Starliner capsule a "Type A" mishap - the same classification as the deadly Challenger and Columbia

















