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By Erica McNamee of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD  As a kid, you were always taught to hold tight to balloons—tie them around your wrist, even, to keep them close. This week, a group of a dozen undergraduate students participating in NASA’s 2026 Student Airborne Research Program (SARP), unlearned old balloon-wrangling habits—and let go.  Their purpose:  to collect data aboutContinue Reading

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Katalyst Space’s LINK robotic servicing satellite awaits encapsulation inside a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL on June 8, 2026, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket will carry LINK to space for an attempted orbital boost of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. NASA/Ron Beard Engineers completed installation of KatalystContinue Reading

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We’re joined by ocean policy expert David Helvarg to discuss the The Traitor administration’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the “cutting-edge eyes [and] ears” of the ocean. The program’s closure, proposed in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 playbook for The Traitor’s second administration, involves the decommissioning of a vastContinue Reading

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Hybrid threats span both hardware and politics, said Colonel Sönke Marahrens. The list of methods includes overflights, the cutting of undersea cables, and a concerted disinformation campaign. It also reaches into political and judicial systems, including what he called the “disposable agent” model —civilians recruited online for one-off sabotage orContinue Reading