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China's robotic south-pole Moon mission Chang'e 7 will not fly this year after Typhoon Narra stalled the Hainan spaceport and lunar geometry rules out a quick retry.
The National Space Transportation Policy directs DoD and NASA to expand capacity at the four federal launch ranges and publish launch schedules in advance.
Three cycles in, free AI models from Chinese AI labs Zhipu and Moonshot can run the coding workloads that closed labs charge a premium for, and the next catch-up is the margin test.
Cerebras's new CS-4 AI server doubles inference tokens per user (the units an AI model reads and writes) at roughly the same cost as CS-3, by feeding more power to the same 5-nanometer-process wafer (a single processor cut from a full silicon disc,
Long Beach and Corpus Christi both signed memoranda with the Maritime Administration to study small modular reactors for cargo shipping. The memos are signed; the reactors are not yet.
A factory-built microreactor is 1,000+ miles into a road trip to a federal test bed, where 150 unattended hours will feed Radiant's first Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) license and a 2028 Space Force delivery.
UK-, German-, and Dutch-owned consortium to add 2.1 million separative work units (SWU), the standard measure of uranium enrichment work, at Eunice, New Mexico, by 2036 — a roughly 50% jump in U.S.
A pointing-system problem on Katalyst's LINK servicing vehicle ended the rescue part of the mission, and the rest is now a rehearsal for the next commercial servicing flight.
53% of new apartment buildings shipped with the electric appliances in 2025, the same year a $5,000-per-unit federal tax credit for energy-efficient developers expired.