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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the 17th Transporter rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday, July 7, 2026. Photo credit: SpaceX The R5-S9 (Realizing Rapid, Reduced-cost high-Risk Research project Spacecraft 9) CubeSat, developed by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, lifted off at 12:12 a.m.Continue Reading

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1 min read Early Career Faculty (ECF) 2025 Awards Back to ECF Home Advanced Diagnostics for High-Enthalpy Test Facilities Simulating Spacecraft Atmospheric Entry Damiano Baccarella University of Tennessee, Knoxville Application of Resonance Enhanced Multi-Photon Ionization Diagnostics to the Characterization of Arcjet Flows​ Ciprian Dumitrache Colorado State University Ultrafast Laser DiagnosticsContinue Reading

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NASA’s Calibration Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Pathfinder, or CLARREO Pathfinder mission, reached a significant milestone this summer by achieving first light. First light showcases a mission’s ability to successfully power on and capture data, in this case detailed spectral data, validating years of preparation and pre-launch testing. This momentContinue Reading

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Explore This Section Science Citizen Science NASA Volunteers Help… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation   The Zooniverse, a NASA grantee that runs the world’s largest platform for online people-powered research, has reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 billion classifications contributed by volunteers around the world. This milestoneContinue Reading

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Even when it rains during the Tirana summer, the humidity never fully lifts. Hot air pressure simply builds back up from the mountains surrounding the Albanian capital before exploding again. Rinse and repeat. For the past month, the same could be said of the Albanian people. Every day since MayContinue Reading

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes withContinue Reading

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Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon have caused catastrophic destruction and damaged historic landmarks., Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon have caused catastrophic destruction and damaged historic landmarks, including the ancient city of Tyre, one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited settlements. Rob McBride visited the UNESCO World Heritage siteContinue Reading