
esa.int
Artemis II rollouthttps://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/01/Artemis_II_rolloutOn 17 January, the Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft were rolled out from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to Launch Pad 39B. The 6.5-km journey took around 12 hours and was carried out using NASA's crawler-transporter, which has been moving rockets to launch pads for over 50 years.Jan 26, 2026 10:30 AM

nasa.gov
NASA’s Artemis II Rocket and Spacecraft Make Their Way to Launch Padhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-artemis-ii-rocket-and-spacecraft-make-their-way-to-launch-pad/This Jan. 17, 2026, image shows NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s massive Crawler-Transporter, upgraded for the Artemis program, carries the powerful SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B in preparation for the Artemis II mission. […]Jan 21, 2026 5:38 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Atoqu – A Zero‑Dependency, GPU‑Accelerated Search Engine Corehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46455244Atoqu is a new open‑source Search Engine Core written in pure C++17 with zero external dependencies.It implements: - Atomic modular architecture - Multi‑mode ranking (Literal, Vector, Hybrid, BM25, Recency, TagBoost) - GPU‑accelerated vector search (CUDA + OpenCL) - Embedding providers (LLM‑ready) - Forward‑compatibility engine (OLFCE) - Full documentation (Doxygen + Sphinx) - CI/CD, sanitizers, static analysisNo Lucene, no JVM, no Python, no FAISS.We’re preparing the v1.2 release and would like community input on:1. *License choice:* Apache v2.0, MPL 2.0, GPLv3, AGPLv3 2. *Performance expectations:* How fast do you think it is vs Google’s core? 3. *Feature priorities for v2.0:* distributed indexing, crawler, query planner, etc.When v1.2 is released, we welcome code review, benchmarks, issues, and contributions.Link to repo will be posted at release.Jan 1, 2026 4:18 PM
bing.com
The agentic web is here: Why NLWeb makes schema your greatest SEO assethttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cfa29c3c64a43b1da2c6c8fddc8ed&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Ftechnology%2Fartificial-intelligence%2Fthe-agentic-web-is-here-why-nlweb-makes-schema-your-greatest-seo-asset%2Far-AA1PgOoX&c=16701015612455518040&mkt=en-usThe web’s purpose is shifting. Once a link graph – a network of pages for users and crawlers to navigate – it’s rapidly becoming a queryable knowledge graph. For technical SEOs, that means the goal ...Oct 27, 2025 5:00 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613567I have been struggling with a bot– 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; crawler)' coming from AWS Singapore – and sending an absurd number of requests to a domain of mine, averaging over 700 requests/second for several months now. Thankfully, CloudFlare is able to handle the traffic with a simple WAF rule and 444 response to reduce the outbound traffic.I've submitted several complaints to AWS to get this traffic to stop, their typical followup is: We have engaged with our customer, and based on this engagement have determined that the reported activity does not require further action from AWS at this time.I've tried various 4XX responses to see if the bot will back off, I've tried 30X redirects (which it follows) to no avail.The traffic is hitting numbers that require me to re-negotiate my contract with CloudFlare and is otherwise a nuisance when reviewing analytics/logs.I've considered redirecting the entirety of the traffic to aws abuse report page, but at this scall, it's essentially a small DOct 17, 2025 5:28 AM

nasa.gov
Remembering President Carterhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/remembering-president-carter/President Jimmy Carter, wife Rosalynn, and daughter Amy, along with Kennedy Space Center Director Lee Scherer, look at a scale model of the crawler that transported the total shuttle launch configuration from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad 39. Despite the setbacks faced through technical and schedule problems during the development of the Space Shuttle […]Dec 30, 2024 4:46 PM

spaceflightnow.com
NASA preps for return of SLS moon rocket to hangarhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2022/04/24/nasa-sls-artemis-1-return-to-vab/Ground teams moved a diesel-powered crawler-transporter underneath the Space Launch System moon rocket Sunday on pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, preparing the towering launcher for a return to the Vehicle Assembly Building for repairs.Apr 24, 2022 7:04 PM

nasaspaceflight.com
NASA moon rocket SLS rolls out to “rebuilt” LC-39B ahead of Artemis 1 rehearsalhttps://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2022/03/sls-rollout-wet-dress-rehearsal/A moment more than a decade in the making. NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the Artemis 1 mission made its first trip down the crawlerway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday evening, March 17.Mar 17, 2022 5:34 PM

spaceflightnow.com
NASA’s new moon rocket ready to roll to launch padhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2022/03/17/relic-of-apollo-will-carry-nasas-new-moon-rocket-to-launch-pad/NASA is set to roll the Space Launch System, a heavy-duty rocket designed to send astronauts to the moon, out of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday evening. A crawler-transporter originally built more than 50 years ago for the Apollo program will haul the towering rocket to its launch pad for a countdown dress rehearsal.Mar 17, 2022 2:09 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Tell HN: I created IAvisa, a visa requirements websitehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22234599IAvisa.com started over a year ago. 5 months ago I posted a Show HN of the website beta and got mixed reactions. Some people liked it, some people didn't like it.Also a lot of bugs were shown and also a lot of false and missing information I had on the website regarding visas.I went back to the drawing board and started working out the kinks. I created crawlers that check sources like IATA, Wikipedia, various Airline companies such as Emirates, FlyDubai, AirFrance etc. and updates the website's information once changes are made in the visa requirements information. This wasn't an easy task as you might know and it took a very long time to finalize.Of course, even IATA and Wikipedia get it wrong occasionally, which is normal due to the fact that inter country deals and procedures change almost on a daily basis but I hope that the IAvisa website is the most accurate source for visa information right now on the market.I'm planning on expanding the site with many more features and I know tFeb 4, 2020 12:01 PM