ScienceDaily
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory found two faint Milky Way satellites using just 7% of the sky, proving it can spot the hundreds of hidden galaxies astronomers have long suspected are out there.
Ars Technica
AST SpaceMobile says its Blacklift rocket will fly in 2028, defying every historical precedent and raising the question: why build a rocket when you’ve already booked rides for 100 satellites?
Ars Technica
Blue Origin delays New Glenn again, China vows to put boots on the Moon by 2030, and Artemis II's launch punched the ionosphere harder than any rocket before it - including Starship, which is twice as powerful.
SpaceNews
CesiumAstro raises $730 million to build a 737-satellite AI constellation, because apparently one satellite and a modest budget just wouldn't send the right message.
SpaceNews
Auriga Space CEO Winnie Lai explains how electromagnetic catapults could launch rockets cheaper - and maybe even help missile defense. Because why use fuel when you can use magnets?
NASA
NASA astronaut captures a stunning predawn photo of the Midwest from space, proving that Chicago is still very bright and airglow is still a thing.
TechCrunch
Orbital Matter's Replicator 2 satellite 3D printed a half-meter beam in space, proving we can build big stuff in orbit - no folding required.
SpaceNews
Airbus's Detumbler uses permanent magnets to stop dead satellites from tumbling, because apparently even in space, we can't just let things spin out of control.
Ars Technica
The Smithsonian wraps up a seven-year, $1 billion renovation with a new gallery about living in space, because apparently we needed a $1 billion reminder that astronauts have been doing it for 25 years.
The Verge
SpaceX may buy Boost Mobile to become a "major" mobile carrier, because satellites apparently weren't enough - and it might need T-Mobile and AT&T's blessing to do it.
NASA
A water-ice cloud near Mars's Arsia Mons has been stretching 1,500 kilometers since 1977, forms only in spring and summer mornings, and may require no dust at all - because of course it doesn't.
TechCrunch
Google's Suncatcher satellite is online, writing haikus and testing TPUs in space - because nothing says 'moonshot' like a $1kW chip that can only run for 20 minutes.
TechCrunch
Putin praises Musk as a 'genius' amid reports of Starlink restrictions in Ukraine, because nothing says 'global stability' like a satellite bromance.
ScienceDaily
Scientists identify seven stages of meteorite falls, revealing that melting and fragmentation - not just evaporation - determine a rock's fate, with implications for larger asteroids.
NASA
A NASA grant program taught an engineering student how to budget, and five years later he's building thousands of military training drones a month. Apparently, the scariest part of drone innovation is the spreadsheet.
Ars Technica
China's secret spaceplane finally gets its close-up, and it looks suspiciously like the US X-37B - because nothing says "innovation" like a good copy.
NASA
NASA's NEO Surveyor sunshade - 20 feet tall, 864 solar cells, 2 kilowatts - is ready to stare at the Sun so ground telescopes don't have to.
NASA
NASA invites media to tour a lunar landing simulator at Ames Research Center on Oct. 29 - 30 - because practicing Moon landings on Earth is still cheaper than the real thing, and the real thing isn't until 2028 anyway.
NASA
NASA's APOD features M42, the Orion Nebula, again - because some cosmic wonders are worth repeating, especially when they're 1,500 light-years away and visible to the naked eye.
ScienceDaily
Astronomers discover three supermassive black holes in one distant galaxy, proving that even 12.5 billion years ago, some entities just couldn't stop growing.
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