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SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
NASA announced last week it was cancelling VIPER, a robotic lunar rover mission, a move that took some by surprise given that the rover was virtually complete after spending nearly half a billion dollars. Jeff Foust reports on why NASA is walking away from the mission and its implications for…
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
There is growing concern about the effect of jamming of GPS signals on sectors like aviation. Lauren Miller describes how those concerns can be mitigated by the use of backup systems even as some countries consider doing away with terrestrial alternatives to satellite-based navigation.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Both China and Russia have invested in new signals intelligence, or SIGINT, satellites to eavesdrop on Western communications and specifically for naval reconnaissance. Matthew Mowthorpe examines what is known about those satellites.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The Challenger disaster is a familiar tale for those in the space community, a warning about both technology and institutions. Jeff Foust reviews a new book that is less about uncovering new details about the accident than about putting the failures that led to the tragedy in perspective.
Hugging Face Blog
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Read about Bonree's approaches to a smooth migration from ZooKeeper to ClickHouse Keeper, which boosted performance by nearly eight times and significantly reduced CPU and memory usage.