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Scientists Just Launched the First Quantum Computer Into Space

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-01 23:31:30

The world of quantum computing has barged into a new frontier: space. A tiny quantum computer housed in a satellite is now in orbit around Earth, ScienceNews reports, residing some 330 miles above our planet after being launched aboard a SpaceX rocket last month. It's a trailblazing experiment intended to test how well these delicate devices can survive the extreme conditions of space, where they could allow satellites to quickly and efficiently perform intense calculations on their own. The

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The curious case of Russia’s charm offensive with NASA this week

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-02 05:20:36

Although NASA and its counterpart in Russia, Roscosmos, continue to work together on a daily basis, the leaders of the two organizations have not held face-to-face meetings since the middle of the first Trump administration, back in October 2018. A lot has changed in the nearly eight years since then, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the rocky departure of Roscosmos leader Dmitry Rogozin in 2022 who was subsequently dispatched to the front lines of the war, several changes in NASA lea

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iPadOS 26 makes this overlooked iPad setting more crucial than ever

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-02 13:25:39

iPadOS 26 is packed full of productivity upgrades, including a new windowing system that lets you use far more apps at once than before. And that newfound ability has made an overlooked ‘More Space’ setting significantly more useful. ‘More Space’ makes app windows more dense with content, perfect for iPadOS 26 No matter which iPad you’re using, iPadOS 26 has big upgrades for how many apps can be visible on-screen. On my 13-inch M4 iPad Pro, I can have up to 12 windows visible simultaneously.

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The military’s squad of satellite trackers is now routinely going on alert

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-03 01:21:48

This is Part 2 of our interview with Col. Raj Agrawal, the former commander of the Space Force's Space Mission Delta 2. If it seems like there's a satellite launch almost every day, the numbers will back you up. The US Space Force's Mission Delta 2 is a unit that reports to Space Operations Command, with the job of sorting out the nearly 50,000 trackable objects humans have launched into orbit. Dozens of satellites are being launched each week, primarily by SpaceX to continue deploying the St

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Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-03 12:31:20

How many satellites are in space? There are thousands of satellites in the sky above us at this moment, orbiting Earth. Satellites have many uses for the government, military, and even civilians. They provide us with the ability to have things like Internet access, television, GPS, and much more. They also have scientific purposes such as Earth and space observation and provide the means for high-level technology development. More than half of the 4,550 satellites orbiting Earth are used for com

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Rocket Report: NASA finally working on depots, Air Force tests new ICBM

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-03 18:00:45

Welcome to Edition 8.05 of the Rocket Report! One of the most eye-raising things I saw this week was an online update from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center touting its work on cryogenic propellant management in orbit. Why? Because until recently, this was a forbidden research topic at the space agency, as propellant depots would obviate the need for a large rocket like the Space Launch System. But now that Richard Shelby is retired... As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don'

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The Space Station’s Russian Segment Won’t Stop Leaking Air

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-04 09:10:18

A pesky air leak on the International Space Station (ISS) just won’t quit. Although the crew hoped they had sealed the last crack on the Russian module, long-term observations revealed that the ISS is still leaking air. During a recent press conference, a Roscosmos official told reporters that recent attempts to fix the leak have slowed down the rate of air leaving the space station but that it’s not yet completely sealed. “The leak is ongoing,” Russian news agency TASS reported. “We continue o

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How to clear the cache on your Windows 11 PC (and why it greatly improves performance)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-04 17:35:00

Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET If your computer desktop looks a little chaotic and you're noticing some performance slowdown, it might be time to do a cleanup. The best way to keep things running smoothly is to ensure you're running the most updated version of Windows (you'd be surprised how many folks' devices are several updates behind). But if you're up-to-date, there are other things you can do to optimize. Also: A decade of Windows 10: Chaos, Cortana, and conspiracy theories that never panned

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This Week’s ‘Strange New Worlds’ Is a Little Too Cute for Its Own Good

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-08-04 17:48:25

Strange New Worlds loves being Star Trek. That’s different from, say, Lower Decks, a series that loved being about Star Trek and the metatextual acknowledgement of that to the nerdiest of degrees. Strange New Worlds knows that it is Star Trek and enjoys that: its connection to the original, the warts-and-all embrace of episodic storytelling, its desire to poke and prod at itself endlessly, and its willingness to vacillate its tone from high drama to high camp on a dime. Sometimes, that can make

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Head of Russian Space Program Touches Down in Texas

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-06 13:11:57

As US-Russia relations deteriorate — with president Donald Trump escalating his economic policy threats to force a ceasefire deal with Ukraine — the two countries' intertwined space exploration programs remain as strange as ever. Look no further than Texas, where the two nations' space agencies are looking to hang out in person. As Reuters reports, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Bokanov, arrived in Houston this week to meet with interim NASA administrator and transportatio

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SpaceX faces two new lawsuits alleging safety‐related retaliation

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-08-06 13:47:20

When longtime supervisor Robert Markert warned SpaceX leaders that one part of the rocket fairing recovery process could “easily cause serious injury or death,” he alleges he was ignored because “it was the more economical solution,” according to a recently filed lawsuit. A few months later, he was out of the job. Markert is one of two former SpaceX employees who have filed separate wrongful-termination lawsuits, both of which were removed to federal court earlier this month. The two complaints

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Australia’s First Rocket Crashes and Burns Seconds After Liftoff

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-07 09:25:00

The first Australian-made orbital rocket to launch from the land down under barely took off for its inaugural test flight, ending roughly 14 seconds after liftoff. Australian startup Gilmour Space launched its Eris rocket for the first time from the company’s Bowen Orbital Spaceport in northern Queensland at 6:35 p.m. ET on Tuesday (8:35 a.m. on Wednesday local time). The first orbital rocket designed and manufactured in Australia had a less-than-ideal first showing. Footage showed Eris struggl

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A new, faster-paced game mode is coming to Apex Legends on August 5

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-07 13:00:48

The next season of Apex Legends kicks off on August 5, and it will see the arrival of a new, permanent game mode. Respawn says it built Wildcard as a faster-paced alternative to the core battle royale mode. For instance, when you take out an enemy, they won't leave behind a death box. Instead, their loot will scatter around them, making it easier for you to spot and pick up an item you need or want. Another big difference here is legend stacking. You and your teammates will all be able to play

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Space Force bets on commercial entrants in $4B satcom contest

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-08-08 13:55:38

American warfighters need jam-proof communications, and the Space Force is planning to spend hundreds of millions to ensure they have them. As part of that effort, the service established the Protected Tactical Satcom program to build out secure battlefield communications via satellites. The Space Force has already awarded contracts to defense primes Boeing and Northrop Grumman to develop prototype payloads for satellites heading to far-away geostationary orbit. Now, the program is entering a

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SpaceX's Crew-11 Is Heading to the ISS on July 31. Here's How to Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-08 16:05:00

Who's ready for another space launch? The next cohort of astronauts is making their way to the International Space Station on Thursday, and the event will be live-streamed in more places than usual. SpaceX is sending up Crew-11 to relieve Crew-10. You may remember Crew-10 as being the crew that relieved Crew-9, which had two stowaways on board who had been stuck in space for months. The launch is scheduled for Thursday at 12:09 p.m. EST from Kennedy's Launch Complex 39A, barring any last-minute

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SpaceX Is Gearing Up for Starship’s Next Flight After a String of Explosive Setbacks

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-09 01:45:18

SpaceX is prepping the Starship rocket for its upcoming test flight, expected to take place in early August. The rocket’s last few launches did not go smoothly, leaving SpaceX in a bit of a slump as it rushes to develop a fully reusable Starship. The company desperately needs a win ahead of its planned uncrewed Mars launch in 2026, or at least for the rocket not to end up as burnt scraps at the bottom of the ocean. This week, SpaceX transported Starship to its launch site in Starbase, Texas, fo

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Former NASA Boss Says We May Be Destroying America’s Only Shot at Space

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-09 12:13:31

One of the driving personalities behind the Hubble Space Telescope is sounding the alarm on president Donald Trump's disastrous space policy. That former NASA associate administrator for spaceflight is Joe Rothenberg, who warns that the agency's current predicament — mass layoffs and deferred resignations resulting in a loss of 20 percent of its workforce and a complete overhaul of agency culture — may already be too bad to fix. "What is happening at NASA has long term and potentially unrecove

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Space Force’s Secretive X-37B Is Returning to Space With New Tech

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-09 13:55:45

Just a few months after wrapping up its seventh test flight in orbit, Space Force’s experimental vehicle known as X-37B is ready for another go. For its upcoming mission, the spaceplane will test new technologies meant to bolster military capabilities in space, such as a navigational sensor that could replace GPS. The U.S. Space Force is set to launch the Boeing-built orbital test vehicle, designated as OTV-8, on August 21 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket

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The U.S. Could Lose a Crucial Futuristic Telescope to Spain if Trump’s Budget Passes

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-08-09 17:40:22

Spain has offered to spend up to €400 million ($471 million) to host the Thirty Meter Telescope, an enormous observatory project facing imminent cancellation due to U.S. budget constraints. If Spain strikes a deal, the TMT would be built on La Palma in the Canary Islands rather than on Mauna Kea, a mountain in Hawaii. In 2016, La Palma became the backup location for the observatory in case the primary site in Hawaii didn’t work out as an option, according to the TMT International Observatory. N

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A Secretive US Space Plane Will Soon Test Quantum Navigation Technology

wired.com Eric Berger 2025-08-10 01:30:00

The X-37B, the US Space Force’s secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle–shaped vehicle on the program’s eighth mission next month. The launch of the vehicle, on a Falcon 9 rocket, is scheduled to occur no earlier than August 21 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There are two active X-37Bs in the Space Force fleet, both built by Boeing. The first made its debut flight in April 2010. Since then, the tw

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Google Workspace is rolling out a security update to stop token stealing attacks

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-10 01:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google Workspace is launching a new security measure to help prevent the same type of account takeover attack that impacted Linus Tech Tips. The feature, which is rolling out in beta for Chrome users on Windows, is designed to block bad actors from remotely stealing the cookies that keep you logged into your Workspace account. Google calls the feat

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Sparrow raises $35M Series B to automate the employee leave management nightmare

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-08-10 05:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Sparrow, the employee leave management technology company, announced Tuesday it raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Silver Lake Waterman, bringing the company’s total investment to $64 million as it capitalizes on the growing complexity of workplace leave compliance. The funding comes as companies grapple with an explosion of sta

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Wish you could escape the planet? Too bad life in space would suck

news.ycombinator.com Levi Stallings 2025-08-10 04:38:46

Climate change, war and fascism got you down? Wish you could buy a ticket on the Europa Clipper spacecraft that’s on its way to check if there’s living slime on a Jupiterian moon? Before you decide to leave Earth behind and move to outer space, consider the life of an astronaut on the International Space Station. Imagine cohabitating with eight other people in an enclosed area the size of a large airplane. You live on a strict schedule broken into 15 minute increments, using a red marker on a c

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Firefly Aerospace sets IPO range that would value rocket maker at $5.5 billion

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-08-11 17:06:25

Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim sits for an interview at the Firefly Aerospace mission operations center in Leander, Texas, on July 9, 2025. Firefly Aerospace will price shares at $35 to $39 each in its upcoming initial public offering, a deal that would value the rocket maker at about $5.5 billion. The Texas-based space company said in an updated prospectus Monday that it's planning to sell about 16.2 million shares. The offering could raise up to $631.8 million. Earlier this month, Firefly

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Elon Musk Is Furious That People Are Launching So Many Satellites, Even Though He's Personally Responsible for 60 Percent of All Satellites Currently in Space

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-12 00:43:14

SpaceX has launched over 9,000 satellites into orbit, and the vast majority of them are still in operation today. As a result of that massive constellation, the Elon Musk-led firm controls over 60 percent of all active satellites currently in orbit. And the company's actively working to launch tens of thousands more, in an effort to bring Starlink broadband satellite internet to the world, efforts that critics say could severely impact the world of astronomy and potentially result in catastroph

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Smithsonian Air and Space opens halls for “milestone” and “future” artifacts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-12 01:54:35

The National Air and Space Museum welcomed the public into five more of its renovated galleries on Monday, including two showcasing spaceflight artifacts. The new exhibitions shine modern light on returning displays and restore the museum's almost 50-year-old legacy of adding objects that made history but have yet to become historical. Visitors can again enter through the "Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall," which has been closed for the past three years and has on display some of the museum's m

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A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-12 09:38:12

The X-37B, the US Space Force's secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle-shaped vehicle on the program's eighth mission next month. The launch of the vehicle, on a Falcon 9 rocket, is scheduled to occur no earlier than August 21 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There are two active X-37Bs in the Space Force fleet, both built by Boeing. The first made its debut flight in April 2010. Since then, the tw

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These Are the First FireSat Images for Finding Wildfires From Space

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-12 15:51:00

At Google I/O in May, Google revealed that it's working with the Earth Fire Alliance on FireSat, a program that combines new high-resolution satellites with AI analysis to pinpoint wildfires in their earliest stages and help responders knock them down before they grow. This week the alliance released the first images captured by the initial satellite, showing how fires as small as 5-by-5 meters -- about the size of a classroom -- can be detected from space. FireSat identified this small roadsid

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Ars spoke with the military’s chief orbital traffic cop—here’s what we learned

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-12 16:00:45

Agrawal was in the room, too. "I was on the crew that needed to count the pieces," he told Ars. "I didn’t know the significance of what was happening until after many years, but the Chinese had clearly changed the nature of the space environment." The 2007 anti-satellite test also clearly changed the trajectory of Agrawal's career. We present part of our discussion with Agrawal below, and we'll share the rest of the conversation tomorrow. The text has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity

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F1 in Belgium: The best racetrack in the world

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-12 17:43:35

The Belgian tourist board provided nothing to this article, the writer just really really loves Spa-Francorchamps. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Formula 1 made its annual stop at Spa-Francorchamps, the historic track that winds its way through the hills and trees of the Ardennes. I’ll admit, I’d been waiting for this one; in fact, I’ve become somewhat of a Spa bore, having fallen in love with the place all over again a few weeks ago while attending the Crowdstrike 24-hour GT3 race

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