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AST SpaceMobile, which builds large satellites for direct-to-cell service, announced it is developing a medium-lift rocket called Blacklift capable of carrying 20 metric tons to low-Earth orbit. CEO Abel Avellan said the vehicle would give the company unconstrained access to space, with commercial launches targeted for late 2028.
Astroterm is a C-based command-line program that renders real-time positions of stars, planets, constellations and moon phases as ASCII art, with views configurable by date, time and location. It is available via package managers including pacman, dnf, Homebrew and Nix, or can be built from source.
Google will launch a prototype satellite to test how its Tensor Processing Units perform in orbit, part of Project Suncatcher, a research effort first announced last year. The initiative explores whether satellites in low Earth orbit, which can access near-constant sunlight and generate far more solar power than on Earth, could eventually host machine learning infrastructure.