spacenews.com
Q&A: Heather Pringle on what to expect from Space Symposiumhttps://spacenews.com/qa-heather-pringle-on-what-to-expect-from-space-symposium/The global space community is looking to build on a wave of momentum to expand its civil and national security sectors and sustain the industry’s resurgence well into the future. Heather Pringle, the Space Foundation’s chief executive officer and a retired Air Force major general, previewed the nonprofit’s annual Space Symposium, now in its 41st […] The post Q&A: Heather Pringle on what to expect from Space Symposium appeared first on SpaceNews.Apr 13, 2026 8:59 PM
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Aerospace to support industry with government furnished talenthttps://spacenews.com/aerospace-to-support-industry-with-government-furnished-talent/The Aerospace Corp. plans to offer industry access to its expertise and facilities through a new program called government furnished talent (GFT). By providing companies with access to the Federally Funded Research and Development Center’s talent, technology, expertise and laboratory infrastructure, Aerospace intends to help accelerate development of space capabilities, Aerospace CEO Tanya Pemberton told […] The post Aerospace to support industry with government furnished talent appeared first on SpaceNews.Apr 13, 2026 6:10 PM
europeanspaceflight.com
ESA Publishes New Details on Crew Launch Abort Demonstratorhttps://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-publishes-new-details-on-crew-launch-abort-demonstrator/The European Space Agency has opened its call for proposals to develop a crew launch abort demonstrator, a project first announced on 28 November 2025. With the call now open, the agency has published additional information about the project, including a budget of €1 million for this initial phase of the demonstrator’s development. Officially opened […] The post ESA Publishes New Details on Crew Launch Abort Demonstrator appeared first on European Spaceflight.Apr 13, 2026 10:30 AM
lingle.ai
Show HN: Lingle – Voice agent to simulate zoom-based personal language lessonshttps://lingle.ai/In my opinion the best way to learn a language (outside of moving to a different country) is to get a personal tutor and have consistent 1 on 1 lessons. I used Preply or iTalki for this back in the day but had issues with flexibility and pricing.I've been trying to simulate the experiences that I had on those platforms with a voice agent.You can try a demo for free here (or watch a video of me using it on the landing page):https://lingle.ai/tryout/lingle-showcaseRight now the agent can plan a lesson with visuals and a conversation focus, guides the user through the lesson - correcting and explaining things on a whiteboard if necessary, and asks relatively engaging questions. There is also a long term user model that builds over time, that maintains memory of the user's produced vocabulary, grammar, and skills, meant to make each lesson informed by the past and build on the user's knowledge (obviously this is still relatively fragile in practice).The voice agent itself has actually deceApr 9, 2026 10:28 PM
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Portal Space Systems raises $50 million to accelerate spacecraft developmenthttps://spacenews.com/portal-space-systems-raises-50-million-to-accelerate-spacecraft-development/Space mobility company Portal Space Systems has raised $50 million to scale up development of its highly maneuverable spacecraft. The post Portal Space Systems raises $50 million to accelerate spacecraft development appeared first on SpaceNews.Apr 9, 2026 1:00 PM
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Starfish Space raises more than $100 millionhttps://spacenews.com/starfish-space-raises-more-than-100-million/WASHINGTON — Starfish Space has raised more than $100 million to scale up production of its satellite servicing spacecraft. Seattle-based Starfish announced April 7 it closed a Series B round led by Point72 Ventures, raising more than $100 million. Activate Capital and Shield Capital co-led the round, with major participation from Industrious Ventures and NightDragon. […] The post Starfish Space raises more than $100 million appeared first on SpaceNews.Apr 7, 2026 1:00 PM
idiotproofseo.com
Show HN: I built a $9 Ahrefs alternative because raw SEO data is cheaphttps://idiotproofseo.com/Like many solo devs and indie hackers, I was paying $100+/mo for enterprise SEO tools (Ahrefs, Semrush) but only using about 5% of their features. I really just needed basic keyword research, SERP difficulty analysis, and simple rank tracking.I wanted to see what the actual floor was for raw SEO data if you stripped away the fluff and enterprise bloat.I spent the last few months wiring together different data sources to find out. I got my costs down to a few cents per report and because the data is so cheap to fetch on-demand, I packaged it into a minimalist tool which strictly focuses on the essential elements of SEO:A keyword analyzer which pulls the top 10 search results, audits them, and flags weak spots (like low DA sites or forums like Reddit) to calculate a realistic difficulty score, a keyword finder which generates hundreds of scored long-tail variations, and a rank tracker with email notifications.Because the costs on my end are so lean, I don't need to charge $100/mo - so I Apr 5, 2026 12:05 PM
esa.int
Smile: A global answer to a global mysteryhttps://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/04/Smile_A_global_answer_to_a_global_mysteryThe European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are joining hands to uncover how Earth defends itself against dangerous particles and radiation from the Sun.Apr 2, 2026 1:00 PM
europeanspaceflight.com
ESA Seeks Commercial Provider to Transport Payload to the Moonhttps://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-seeks-commercial-provider-to-transport-payload-to-the-moon/The 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.Mar 30, 2026 2:22 PM
understudy-ai.github.io
Show HN: I made an AI that reviews iPhone apps – 1h of autonomous GUI workhttps://understudy-ai.github.io/understudy/I've been building Understudy, an open-source GUI agent for macOS. Wanted to push the GUI stuff beyond the usual short demos, so I tried turning it into an iPhone app reviewer.You give it one prompt. It browses the real App Store in Chrome, installs the app on a real iPhone through macOS iPhone Mirroring (not a simulator), opens the app and explores it — never seen Snapseed before — records clips and screenshots, composites a narrated review video with FFmpeg locally, uploads it to YouTube, then deletes the app. About an hour, didn't touch the keyboard.The exploration part is what I'm happiest with. The agent reads the App Store description, goes "they say background removal works, let me try that," and then figures out an unfamiliar app on its own. It regrounds from the live screenshot every action, so unexpected dialogs or UI changes don't kill it.The reason it can sustain an hour of work: each of the 6 stages runs as a separate child session with its own context. You can't fit an hoMar 27, 2026 7:39 PM
github.com
Show HN: Forkrun – NUMA-aware shell parallelizer (50×–400× faster than parallel)https://github.com/jkool702/forkrunforkrun is the culmination of a 10-year-long journey focused on "how to make shell parallelization fast". What started as a standard "fork jobs in a loop" has turned into a lock-free, CAS-retry-loop-free, SIMD-accelerated, self-tuning, NUMA aware shell-based stream parallelization engine that is (mostly) a drop-in replacement for xargs -P and GNU parallel.On my 14-core/28-thread i9-7940x, forkrun achieves:* 200,000+ batch dispatches/sec (vs ~500 for GNU Parallel)* ~95–99% CPU utilization across all 28 logical cores, even when the workload is non-existant (bash no-ops / `:`) (vs ~6% for GNU Parallel). These benchmarks are intentionally worst-case (near-zero work per task) because they measure the capability of the parallelization framework itself, not how much work an external tool can do.* Typically 50×–400× faster on real high-frequency low-latency workloads (vs GNU Parallel)A few of the techniques that make this possible:* Born-local NUMA: stdin is splice()'d into a shared memfd, theMar 27, 2026 12:12 PM
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NASA Releases Artemis II Moon Mission Launch Countdownhttps://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-releases-artemis-ii-moon-mission-launch-countdown/Before NASA sends its astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen on their Artemis II mission around the Moon, the launch team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and teams across the country will begin counting down about two days before liftoff. A launch countdown contains […]Mar 26, 2026 8:12 PM
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4838-4844: Wrapping Up the Boxwork Terrainhttps://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4838-4844-wrapping-up-the-boxwork-terrain/Written 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 […]Mar 26, 2026 3:26 PM
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NASA’s Hubble Detects First-Ever Spin Reversal of Tiny Comethttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-detects-first-ever-spin-reversal-of-tiny-comet/Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that the spinning of a small comet slowed and then reversed its direction of rotation, offering a dramatic example of how volatile activity can affect the spin and physical evolution of small bodies in the solar system. This is the first time researchers have observed evidence […]Mar 26, 2026 2:00 PM
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Walmart Has an ‘Excellent’ $500 Electric Scooter on Sale for 45% Offhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a5a8150084d4aa3715b3c048d916a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.autoblog.com%2Fdeals%2Fzdza-electric-scooter-walmart-flash-sale&c=6586396519164454310&mkt=en-usView post: Walmart Shoppers Say These DeWalt 20V Max Batteries 'Last All Day Long' — And They're 55% Off The Zdza 750W Electric Scooter is on sale for $275 at Walmart. That’s 45% off its normal $500 ...Mar 26, 2026 12:14 PM
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Ask HN: Has Claude Code quality level degraded lately?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526097Last week or so, I have been noticing Claude Code has been significantly challenged in keeping its stuff together. On a Max plan, using Opus 4.6 with thinking in Chat window (I use code as well, but this is just an example), asked it to create a web page that spits out a few different layouts/designs and its a single page web page, asked it to add ai to generate new designs.It kept messing up aspect ratio, and forgets to add the AI feature, I know what you are thinking, may be the prompts are off... but its like 'oh I forgot to add the AI feature, let me add it' and then no 'AI Feature' in its output.Driving me nuts, figured I would ask here to see if its just me or more people are seeing noticeable degradation of their experience recently...Mar 26, 2026 2:44 AM
spacenews.com
Office of Space Commerce releases mission authorization proposalhttps://spacenews.com/office-of-space-commerce-releases-mission-authorization-proposal/The Office of Space Commerce has rolled out its proposal for a “light touch” approach to mission authorization, the latest attempt in an effort to regulate new commercial space applications. The post Office of Space Commerce releases mission authorization proposal appeared first on SpaceNews.Mar 25, 2026 7:50 PM
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NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2026https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-awards-astrophysics-postdoctoral-fellowships-for-2026/The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) recently named 24 new fellows to its 2026 class. The NHFP enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area of NASA Astrophysics, using theory, observations, simulations, experimentation, or instrument development. Over 650 applicants vied for the 2026 fellowships, representing an oversubscription rate of 27 […]Mar 25, 2026 4:00 PM
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NASA Unveils Initiatives to Achieve America’s National Space Policyhttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-unveils-initiatives-to-achieve-americas-national-space-policy/As part of its “Ignition” event on Tuesday, NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide initiatives designed to achieve President Donald J. Trump’s National Space Policy and advance American leadership in space. These actions reflect the urgency of the moment, but also the tremendous opportunity ahead for world-changing science and discovery. “NASA is committed to […]Mar 24, 2026 1:01 PM
europeanspaceflight.com
US-Based Katalyst Selects Ariane 6 to Launch Satellite Servicing Spacecrafthttps://europeanspaceflight.com/us-based-katalyst-selects-ariane-6-to-launch-satellite-servicing-spacecraft/Arizona-headquartered space operations company Katalyst Space Technologies has signed a contract with Arianespace to launch its NEXUS-1 satellite servicing spacecraft aboard an Ariane 6 in 2027. The NEXUS-1 spacecraft is designed to operate in geostationary orbit (GEO), docking with satellites to perform a range of in-orbit servicing duties, including installing new hardware, repositioning satellites, and […] The post US-Based Katalyst Selects Ariane 6 to Launch Satellite Servicing Spacecraft appeared first on European Spaceflight.Mar 24, 2026 7:05 AM
