Every space mission begins long before launch day. Ideas... become spacecraft. Thousands of decisions are made before a single engine ignites. The European Space Agency (ESA) knows what that journey looks like. As the agency prepares to increase the missions it supports by 2030, it is laying the groundwork for decades of future exploration. Working with Canonical, ESA is building a common platform for mission operations based on open source. Kubernetes, Ceph, PostgreSQL, and Kafka form ESA’s infrastructure foundation. Copyright: Footage - European Space Agency/CNES/Arianegroup Read the full story: #OpenSource #Canonical #ESAshow more

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot recently offered... a rare peek into life aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In a video shared on Instagram, Adenot demonstrated her yin yoga routine in microgravity, showing online users what it takes to find balance while floating in space. Fans quickly flooded the comment section, with one user describing it as "magically elegant". For Adenot, practising yoga has been an integral part of her daily life for years on Earth, a habit she has successfully adapted to low-Earth orbit. Read more:show more

Ubuntu Core 26 now integrates with the Canonical Observability... Stack, streaming device logs and metrics to centralized Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus infrastructure, deployable in the cloud or on-premise, without burdening the device's primary workloads. What is Ubuntu Core? Ubuntu Core is a minimal and strictly confined variant of Ubuntu powering devices around the world. Ubuntu Core 26 has arrived, discover what's new: #OpenSource #Canonical #UbuntuCore26show more

🚨 BIG: 🇮🇳 India to soon join the global... race for SpaceX-like reusable rockets Chennai-based space startup Agnikul Cosmos has announced Mission-02, a bold plan to attempt India's first recovery of an orbital-class rocket booster by a private company. The mission aims to safely recover the booster for refurbishment and reuse, while repurposing the upper stage into a functional in-orbit platform instead of letting it become debris. This is a major step toward reusable launch vehicles that can significantly reduce costs and make satellite launches more affordable and sustainable. Agnikul is already a leader in 3D-printed rocket engines that can be produced rapidly. It is now advancing reusability technologies, backed by multiple patents from 🇮🇳 India, the 🇺🇸 US, and 🇪🇺 Europe. With support from ISRO and IN-SPACe, this progress highlights the rapid growth of India's private space sector. Alongside recent private orbital launches like Skyroot’s Vikram-1, the country is building strong self-reliance in space technology. A proud leap forward for Made in India innovation. 🇮🇳show more

🚨 NASA IS ABOUT TO LET A PRIVATE SPACECRAFT... RESCUE ONE OF ITS MOST IMPORTANT TELESCOPES. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has been hunting gamma-ray bursts the most powerful explosions in the universe since 2004. It’s still working perfectly, but Earth’s atmosphere has been slowly dragging it down toward a fiery reentry. Now, NASA is turning to a commercial company to save it. Katalyst Space Technologies’ robotic spacecraft Link will launch later this month, rendezvous with Swift, dock with it, and boost the telescope into a higher, safer orbit extending its life by years. Why this matters: • It’s the first time a private spacecraft will perform an orbital boost on a U.S. government science satellite • Swift remains one of the best tools we have for studying gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy cosmic events • Without this mission, the telescope could have deorbited as early as this year • It shows how commercial space companies are now capable of performing complex servicing missions that were once only possible for governments The deeper implication: We’re entering a new era where valuable scientific infrastructure in orbit doesn’t have to be considered disposable. Instead of building and launching entirely new telescopes when old ones start to decay, we can now extend their lives through commercial servicing. This approach is faster, cheaper, and more sustainable and it could become a standard model for protecting high-value space assets in the future. Sometimes the most important space missions aren’t about discovering something new. They’re about making sure we don’t lose what we already have. Would you support more commercial missions to rescue and extend aging space telescopes? Follow for more frontier space exploration, satellite servicing, and NASA missions.show more

One small step for Hivemind, one giant leap for... mission autonomy. Hivemind is going to space! Shield AI and Sedaro are partnering to send Hivemind to space, bringing the same resilient, edge-based autonomy that is redefining warfare to satellites delivering critical infrastructure and national defense capabilities. Our strategic partnership establishes Hivemind Pilot as Sedaro’s preferred autonomy software for on-orbit demonstrations, while also enabling the use of the Sedaro Platform for developing, testing, and demonstrating Hivemind in space-relevant scenarios. “Combining Hivemind Pilot with Sedaro’s high-fidelity models and simulation environment will unlock multi-agent cognitive teaming for space applications and new mission capabilities for our customers.” - Christian Gutierrez, Vice President of Hivemind Solutions. Hivemind is multi-domain mission autonomy. We've done autonomy for air, ground, and surface applications this year, and we couldn't be more excited to go to space. If your systems need autonomy, we'd love to work with you and help give your systems the best autonomy in the business. Read the full press release: Autonomy for the world. The greatest victory requires no war.show more

The Sabotaging Practice of Over Supply and Sameness in... the NFT Space. The current zeitgeist of the NFT space is that the same artists are doing the same kind of work five times a year, with project after project leaving a trail of disappointment and discontent among collectors and all of us watching in disbelief as huge resources are extracted from the space over work that feels like it could be left as an "artist study." I understand that you can do what you want with your money as collectors, but we are killing the whole space with this incestuous practice. No artist is that prolific to be able to do 5 collections of 100+ pieces each every year and actually deliver innovation and some kind of creative evolution. Of course, they can pretend play that the work has something new, but there is no precedent nor proof that that has ever happened in the speed that it happens in the NFT space. Again, people are free to through away their resources on whatever they want but with this way of doing things, we more and more are going to start seeing the consequences. Oh! There are consequences? Yes. Maybe unintended, but there are. Let's see. Let's start with the loss of belief in the NFT space as somewhere where emerging artists can come and find support for their experiments. Why even bother to bring experiments, innovation, and new ways to think of art on the blockchain if the same people have all the collectors hypnotized with their magical flutes? Why even try to come to a space where taking risks and challenging the status quo (the mission of art!!!) is overlooked? This makes the NFT space a social club and not a space for art. I guess it is fine, but IMO it is a recipe for disaster. New collectors stay away because the art will slowly but surely become stale and un-challenging. Why even bother to come and see what is happening here if you can't, as a collector, see new weird and up-and-coming artists? The amount of noise emitted by the same artists doing the same art over and over, drowns out any new voices. Again. A recipe for disaster. The NFT space is becoming a space of disappointment and doubt. We think that collections going to zero one after the other, over and over, is not damaging? I feel we are kidding ourselves. Disappointment piles up, and again, the people who will hurt are the emerging artists, the new blood, the ones who are willing to risk the most and, in return, put fire in this cold space of sameness. I love this space—don't get me wrong—it has changed my life, and I believe it has a ton of potential, but things need to change for it to become a beacon of light in art. But we need to support new voices. We need to support new ideas. The challenge is huge. I hope to contribute all I can to this change. I hope more and more see how exciting it is to go out and try to discover what else is out there and move this space forward. But again, I understand the leaps of faith needed, but if there is a space that is based on that, it's the NFT space...so there is hope. We will see. 📺by Boldtronshow more

Kedarnath is a tremendous space. The utterance of the... sound “Shiva” attains a completely new dimension and significance in Kedar. It is a space which has been specially prepared for this particular sound. When we utter the word “Shiva,” it is the freedom of the uncreated, the liberation of one who is not created. It is almost like on this planet, the sound “Shiva” emanates from this place. For thousands of years, people have experienced that space as a reverberation of that sound. This is also a place that has witnessed thousands of Yogis and mystics of every kind. When I say every kind, you cannot imagine those kinds. These are people who made no attempt to teach anything to anyone. Their way of making an offering to the world was by leaving their energies, their path, their work – everything – in a certain way in these spaces.show more

Ubuntu Core 26 introduces a Chisel-based build system with... explicit, traceable dependencies, where every file can be attributed to its source package. This improves integrity checks and trims base image size by 7%. What is Ubuntu Core? Ubuntu Core is a minimal, secure, and strictly confined operating system powering devices around the world. Ubuntu Core 26 has arrived, discover what's new: #OpenSource #Canonical #UbuntuCore26show more

During training, you visit many of the facilities that... will eventually play a role in your mission. Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A was one of them. This visit felt different. Standing at the base of the tower and looking up, I was reminded that this is the very place from which Neil Armstrong and his crewmates began their journey to the Moon. The facility has evolved over the decades and has been modernized for a new era of spaceflight, but it still carries the weight of its history. You can feel it. Then there is the elevator. Inside, there are only two buttons: Earth and Space. A simple design choice, perhaps, but one that feels remarkably profound when launch day finally arrives. What you see here is me at the top of the launch pad, with the Falcon 9 yet to make its way out. The rocket is transported to the pad horizontally and then raised to a vertical position before launch. Standing there, it was impossible not to imagine the events that would soon unfold. At this very time last year, all of this was happening in real time. Looking back now, it feels both distant and incredibly close. #shux #space #shubhanshushukla #india #axiom4show more

Why the world needs Grokipedia? ➤ Wikipedia isn’t the... neutral source of truth it once was. It’s been taken over by far-left activists and often used as a propaganda tool, not an unbiased encyclopedia. ➤ A lot of AIs today get their info from the internet, but the web is full of unfair views, wrong facts, and tons of junk. ➤ Grokipedia will be an open-source encyclopedia focused solely on TRUTH. ➤ Grokipedia won’t be controlled by any activist or political bias. ➤ It will be open-source and free for all to use, a truly public resource without limits. ➤ xAI’s ultimate mission is to understand the universe, and that requires honest, unfiltered information. Grokipedia is a crucial step toward that goal, because you can’t build a truthful AI on biased information. ➤ The vision is for Grokipedia to become the global standard for knowledge. One day, every person and every AI system could rely on it as a trusted source of truth. ➤ Seeking truth is the greatest mission of all and that’s what Grokipedia stands for. Grokipedia is coming.show more

Why the internet needs Grokipedia? ➤ Wikipedia isn’t the... neutral source of truth it once was. It’s been taken over by far-left activists and often used as a propaganda tool, not an unbiased encyclopedia. ➤ A lot of AIs today get their info from the internet, but the web is full of unfair views, wrong facts, and tons of junk. ➤ Grokipedia will be an open-source encyclopedia focused solely on TRUTH. ➤ Grokipedia won’t be controlled by any activist or political bias. ➤ It will be open-source and free for all to use, a truly public resource without limits. ➤ xAI’s ultimate mission is to understand the universe, and that requires honest, unfiltered information. Grokipedia is a crucial step toward that goal, because you can’t build a truthful AI on biased information. ➤ The vision is for Grokipedia to become the global standard for knowledge. One day, every person and every AI system could rely on it as a trusted source of truth. ➤ Seeking truth is the greatest mission of all and that’s what Grokipedia stands for. Grokipedia is coming.show more

We are officially entering the Aptos era! For any... team building in the blockchain space performance is the ultimate foundation for success. Right now the network is leading the entire industry with a staggering block time of 0.04 seconds completely redefining what efficiency means. And also it's important to mention that, real world adoption requires infrastructure that can deliver instant results for millions of users simultaneously. When you combine this level of speed with reliability the possibilities become endless. Big respect to the team for making this vision a reality! Source: Chainspectshow more

Artificial embryo samples aboard Tiangong Space Station for life... science research Space "artificial embryo" samples and other life science experiments delivered by the Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft have been installed into experiment modules aboard China's Tiangong space station, the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said on Wednesday. The "artificial embryos" are stem cell-derived artificial human embryos. The embryos, though not true life forms and unable to develop into human babies, will help simulate the earliest stages of human development. Once the experiments are completed, the artificial embryo samples will be frozen in orbit and then returned to Earth on a future mission for side-by-side analysis with ground-based controls in laboratories on the ground. This effort is part of a broader suite of 41 space science experiments being deployed aboard Tiangong, supporting its latest round of research on the orbiting laboratory.show more

🚨🇮🇷 On February 28, 84 ships passed through the... Strait of Hormuz in a single day. By March 5 that was in single digits. It has stayed there for 3 weeks. That chart is what a closed strait looks like from the outside. Every flat line after March 5 is a day the global economy ran on reserves instead of supply. The human and economic consequences of that flat line are now visible across Asia, Europe and the Americas: Fuel rationing, supply chain collapse, force majeure declarations, energy price spikes, and second-order effects ranging from helium shortages to crematorium fuel crises in India. Source: Anadolu Agencyshow more

NASA’s Epic 685,000-Mile Moon Odyssey! Get ready for history... in the making! Right now, NASA’s Artemis II mission is blazing a trail through deep space on an incredible 10-day journey covering more than 685,000 miles — and it’s already halfway to the Moon.Four brave astronauts are currently farther from Earth than any humans have traveled in over half a century, riding aboard the Orion spacecraft on a daring voyage that will take them on a breathtaking flyby of the lunar this video, we break down the full adventure: the outbound trajectory, the dramatic lunar flyby, and the precise free-return path that will slingshot them safely back home. You’ll see exactly how Orion navigates the vast emptiness of space using clever orbital mechanics and innovative mission design.Artemis II marks the first crewed flight of NASA’s Artemis program — the bold step that will return humans to the Moon and open the door to sustained lunar exploration and beyond.Buckle up — this is how humanity returns to deep space!show more

I am deeply saddened to hear that a boat... carrying 90 people capsized on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe today. The boat, owned by the Rural Infrastructure Development Agency (RIDA), a government agency, was on Lake Kariba when it capsized. The head of RIDA is quoted as saying that the situation is “not sounding good at all,” although some people have been rescued. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone who was on the boat and with their families during this extremely difficult and anxious time. I am hoping and praying for the best, particularly for the safe rescue of those who are still unaccounted for.show more

Once you return from space, your body discovers that... Earth is no longer as intuitive as it once was. After weeks in microgravity, it has become remarkably efficient at living in an environment where up and down are merely suggestions. Reacquainting it with gravity takes time. Post-flight rehabilitation is a carefully designed program tailored to each astronaut, gradually increasing the intensity and complexity of exercises to retrain balance, coordination, strength, and endurance. The objective is simple: keep challenging the body until Earth feels natural again. At times, I was convinced that my instructor, Emiliano Ventura , had made it his personal mission to find new and creative ways to make me fall. But that is how you learn. By falling. Whether after a space mission or in life. #shux #space #shubhanshushukla #india #axiom4show more

🚨 10,000 STARLINK SATELLITES IN ORBIT - AND NOBODY'S... EVEN CLOSE SpaceX crossed 10K satellites last week. For context: the entire world launched around 8,700 total spacecraft in all of history before Starlink started. They're completing Starlink missions every 48 hours now. Just set a California pad turnaround record - 2 days, 10 hours between launches from the same facility. That's industrial-scale space operations, not aerospace. The constellation now blankets the planet with low-latency internet from pole to pole. Amazon's Project Kuiper? Still on the launchpad. OneWeb? Bankrupt and resurrected, now limping along. China's building their own - years behind. SpaceX isn't winning the satellite internet race. They've won it long ago. Everyone else is fighting for scraps. Source: Spaceflight Now, Space[dot]com, LaunchHeaven on YTshow more