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Curiosity Blog, Sols 5063-5069 Rocks and Chips
NASA reports: Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover…
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Road to Mars
Simulated collisions reveal how Phobos could preserve rocks blasted off Mars
Phys.org reports: Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, but their origins remain uncertain. Were they asteroids captured by Mars' gravity, or did they form from debris following a giant impact on the planet?
Starship Flight 15 to attempt first catch of both stages
NASASpaceflight reports: After 14 full-stack flights, SpaceX is set to attempt something no one in spaceflight history has done: catch both stages of an orbital-class rocket. On Flight 15/Starlink Group 31-2, SpaceX will try to catch Booster 22 back at Pad 2 minutes after launch.
Building a rocket is hard. AST SpaceMobile thinks it's "simple."
Ars Technica reports: During an hour-long event on Thursday, Abel Avellan, the founder and chief executive of the telecommunications company AST SpaceMobile, laid out his vision for developing a large rocket to launch his Bluebird satellites into orbit. Avellan emphasized, over and over again, that AST plans to build a…
ULA’s Vulcan set to return to flight with first Amazon Leo payload
NASASpaceflight reports: United Launch Alliance’s current flagship launch vehicle, Vulcan, is scheduled to return to flight after being grounded since February due to recurring nozzle issues with the GEM-63XL solid rocket boosters. The first nozzle issue occurred in October 2024 during the rocket’s second flight, before a…
NASA is betting on cheaper missions as a way to sustain science. We built a database to check whether it works.
The Planetary Society reports: Our new Science Mission Impact study and dashboard examine 143 NASA science missions and 148,534 peer-reviewed papers. Our main finding: In every science division, the cheapest missions can’t replace the science return of larger ones.
Sound Money
A STARK proof of Bitcoin's UTXO set at block 972,500, with circuits proven in Lean
Delving Bitcoin reports: Hi everyone. I’ve been working on a side project to see how far a STARK prover can go on Bitcoin consensus.
BIP Draft Post-Quantum Address Format (bc1z) using ML-DSA-65
Delving Bitcoin reports: Dear Bitcoin Development Community, I’m sharing a draft BIP for a quantum-resistant address format for Bitcoin, developed as part of the safe-btc project ( GitHub - Zaenus/btc-safe: Proposals for improve safety under Quantum attacks · GitHub ). Summary This BIP proposes a new bc1z address format…
Bitcoin Faces Two Red Years For the First Time Ever
Bitcoin Magazine reports: ▶ Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Faces Two Red Years For the First Time Ever Bitcoin has never posted back-to-back losing years, but 2026 could change that. BMTV’s Chart of the Day looks at Bitcoin’s yearly candles: 2025 closed down about 6%, the first red year directly after a halving, and 2026 is down…
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The Marscoin Ledger
The Marscoin Ledger
Marscoin traded at $0.0607. The chain produced 677 blocks in the last 24 hours against about 702 expected, with 6 waits longer than 30 minutes and a longest wait of 91 minutes. The swap book held 3 offers.
