nasa’s sunrise smallsats ace-tests, moving closer-to launch

Engineers at Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) oversee vibration testing of one of the six small satellites of NASA’s SunRISE mission in a laboratory clean room in October 2025. Space Dynamics Laboratory/Allison Bills The small satellites passed a crucible of tests, ending with a simulation of the intense vibrations of launch. When the six tiny spacecraft of NASA’s SunRISE (SunContinue Reading

nasa’s-sls-rocket:-secondary-payloads

When NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket launches the agency’s Artemis II mission to the Moon, four CubeSats, or small satellites, will be hitching a ride inside the rocket’s Orion stage adapter (OSA). All four Artemis II CubeSats are provided by countries that are signatories of the Artemis Accords. PayloadContinue Reading

maureen-kudlac

Maureen Kudlac Deputy Director (Acting), Advanced Air Vehicles Program Maureen Kudlac is the acting deputy director for the Advanced Air Vehicle Program (AAVP) within the Aeronautics Research Mission Ditectorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. In collaboration with the program director, Kudlac supports the overall planning, management, and evaluation ofContinue Reading

protesters-enter-church-run-by-ice-official,-drawing-doj-outrage

Local activists protested a St. Paul ICE field officer’s church. Now they’re under federal investigation. Published January 20, 2026 1:44PM (EST) MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – JANUARY 18: A protester with an anti-ICE sign, stands outside of the Henry Bishop Whipple Federal building on January 18, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protesters continuedContinue Reading

window-shadows-finally-arrive-on-cosmic-desktop

System76 has updated the COSMIC Desktop with window shadows and consistent corner sizing across all applications, a change available on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS right now and coming to users on other Linux distributions soon. Both features apply the effects consistently, meaning that apps in different toolkits (Qt, GTK, Iced, etc)Continue Reading