SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on its record 135th orbital mission of the year

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink satellites lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025, marking the launch vehicle’s record 135th flight of year. (Image credit: SpaceX) The records keep rolling in for SpaceX. One of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space ForceContinue Reading

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Westwater Resources, an energy technology and critical minerals company focused on developing battery-grade natural graphite, has received a US patent for graphite purification methods. In August 2020, Westwater Resources filed its first patent application for the method of graphite purification to be employed at the Kellyton Graphite Processing Plant underContinue Reading

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If you use Kubuntu 25.10 you can upgrade to KDE Plasma 6.5 through the Kubuntu backports PPA. Kubuntu 25.10 was released on 9 October 2025 with KDE Plasma 6.4, but on 21 October the new KDE Plasma 6.5 release arrived — users of the former who want the latter, now haveContinue Reading