Monday, August 3, 2026

Starlinks Russian rival



"A Russian satellite network built to rival Starlink has quietly reached a threshold Ukrainian defense officials have been dreading, providing at least two reliable windows of connectivity over Ukrainian territory every single day, each lasting more than an hour, Militarnyi reported, citing satellite communications expert Volodymyr Stepanets."

https://defence-blog.com/russias-starlink-rival-gains-steady-coverage-over-ukraine/

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory



"NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a faraway galaxy."

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/swift/nasas-swift-sees-wandering-mega-black-hole-shredding-star/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nn202630

Friday, July 31, 2026

Honeycomb-like textures



"NASA officials say they’re gobsmacked by new images from the Curiosity Mars rover that show stretches of Red Planet terrain covered in honeycomb-like textures."


https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/mars-honeycomb-polygon-surface/

Soviet Probe

"On 7 October 1959, a Soviet probe the size of a small water heater swung around the back of the Moon, opened a camera port on its sunlit side, and began photographing a hemisphere no human had ever seen."https://spacedaily.com/sd-in-1959-the-soviet-luna-3-probe-swung-around-the-far-side-of-the-moon-and-took-29-grainy-photographs-that-humans-had-never-seen-before-then-developed-the-film-onboard-in-a-tiny-automated-darkroom-a/

Radio Telescope

"On the night of August 15, 1977, a radio telescope the size of several football fields sat in a field outside Delaware, Ohio, listening to the sky."https://spacedaily.com/sd-in-1977-a-radio-telescope-in-ohio-called-big-ear-picked-up-a-72-second-signal-so-strong-and-so-cleanly-from-the-direction-of-sagittarius-that-the-astronomer-on-duty-circled-it-in-red-ink-and-wrote/

Satellite company

"A beleaguered satellite company on the verge of bankruptcy a year ago has become the Fortune 500’s latest success story in shareholder returns: its stock price soared 430% since the beginning of last year, including nearly 375% in 2025 alone."https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/dying-satellite-company-sold-spectrum-155332532.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=YW5kcm9pZC1hcHA6Ly9jb20uZ29vZ2xlLmFuZHJvaWQuZ29vZ2xlcXVpY2tzZWFyY2hib3gv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAYmjzVXSavVZyEB8ZiWLI-LIomQskSCx7Kkpd8Gp4Ut2WFo69Mo2WhTNIvEVztmvNcKYA5OkONn2S_aMQRH62X8EGwA6cibuz1Jg2Gxz9ypDgpnyK3f7sDR2LeIRic69oUIdhSIqgSchZSM50dfAdxfFFbn2ls8iPXohYOKo_au

Complete the following sentence and then keep writing: "My first___"



My first flight in space was awesome. I boarded the spaceship with my friends. We took a long nap and when we awoke we were on Mars. It was breathtaking all the wonders we got to see. We stayed in a fully furnished Mars Bed and Breakfast for the low cost of $200 a month.


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