Fire hydrant signs with Starlink antennas tested for emergency Wi-Fi in disaster-prone Japan — existing widespread grid of street-level furniture can be used for communications network fallback Science
Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city’s reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria in Cheyenne’s water system Science
DARPA plans 30-year endurance nuclear waste batteries to power next-gen drones, says report — project SYMPHONEE aims to harvest Strontium-90 to power persistent military drones Science
SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth’s atmosphere — new environmental concerns emerge over burning 2,700-pound orbital data centers, FCC seeks to exempt satellites from regulations Science
The Surprising Reason Why Scientists Are Placing Underwater ‘Boomboxes’ In Jamaica’s Coral Reefs – SlashGear Science
Rocket Lab buys satellite company Iridium to go up against Starlink and Amazon’s Leo – Engadget Science
China was effectively shut out of the International Space Station after the United States passed the Wolf Amendment in 2011, so it built its own. If the ISS retires on schedule around 2030 and no commercial successor is ready, China’s Tiangong could become the only permanently crewed outpost in Earth orbit. Science
The SpaceX IPO Lifted the Whole Space Economy — Including the Public Companies Building the Road Back to the Moon Science
Congressional Oversight Reassertion: House Appropriators Back $55.5 Billion Space Force Budget, Denouncing “Golden Dome” Funding Maneuvers Science
The SpaceX IPO Lifted the Whole Space Economy — Including the Public Companies Building the Road Back to the Moon Science
Getting to Mars may require a pit stop in orbit, and NASA just tested the nozzle to make that happen Science
Massive asteroid the size of multiple Empire State Buildings is zipping past Earth this weekend Science
