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“free up more than $3 billion in the years ahead.”
“temperatures might reach up to 40˚C in parts of Britain”
“Currently, the U.S. has only one active lithium mine, in Nevada,”
“NASA is paying $30 million for a 1st-of-its-kind rescue mission to the aging Swift telescope before it falls from space.”
“ranging between 102 and 107 degrees“, or 38.9˚C and 41.7˚C”
“the government and private companies are planning to open at least 115 new mines across the country,”
“Swift, it turns out, is still worth it, according to NASA. The observatory has spent over two decades as a sort of orbital sentinel that scans the cosmos for gamma-ray bursts, ready to quickly point itself at the short-lived — but insanely…”
“Almost four years ago”
“published May 28 in the journal Communications Earth & Environment,”
“NASA originally built and launched Swift in 2004 for $250 million.”
“The U.S. imports more than 50% of its lithium, mostly from Chile and Argentina.”
“So NASA is launching a rescue mission on June 30, one led by the company Katalyst Space using its new Link spacecraft.”
“the 22 proposed mines that are the closest to coming online,”
“NASA's Swift rescue mission, called Swift Boost, is now scheduled to launch Tuesday (June 30) — about 3 days later than originally planned — on the last-ever Pegasus XL rocket...”
“Our analysis estimated that if all 22 advanced [stage] proposed mines and the sole operating mine continued operation into 2050, 0.14 [to] 0.25 million metric tons [0.15 to 0.28 million tons] of lithium content in products could be produce…”
“NASA has turned to the untested Arizona-based company Katalyst Space, which the space agency picked to fly the Swift Boost mission just nine months ago, in September 2025.”
“This range falls short of the 0.83 million to 1.9 million tons (0.75 million to 1.7 million metric tons) of lithium per year that other researchers previously estimated the U.S. would need to cover its own demand.”
“Katalyst calls its rescue ship Link. It's a small spacecraft about the size of a refrigerator that has three main ion engines, three robotic arms and a suite of sensors and thrusters to attempt to capture the falling Swift observatory.”
“the 23 lithium mines most likely to be active in 2050,”
“It's a small spacecraft about the size of a refrigerator that has three main ion engines, three robotic arms and a suite of sensors and thrusters to attempt to capture the falling Swift observatory.”
“under four modeled socioeconomic-climate scenarios between 2040 and 2060.”
“and then push the Swift telescope to a higher orbit — one that will guarantee at least five or more years of science life, if successful.”
“Southern California's Salton Sea, which contains roughly 4.5 million tons (4.1 million metric tons) of lithium.”
“(NASA renamed Swift the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in 2018 after the mission's first principal investigator, who died a year earlier.)”
“There were four exceptions in the study, including lithium-rich sites in North Carolina and Arkansas, which may have enough water to support future mines.”
“In 2022, Swift discovered a gamma-ray burst so bright, scientists nicknamed it the 'BOAT,' short for Brightest of All Time.”
“Currently, the U.S. has only one active lithium mine, in Nevada”
“ready to quickly point itself at the short-lived — but insanely powerful — space explosions at a moment's notice.”
“the government and private companies are planning to open at least 115 new mines across the country”
“The Hubble Space Telescope can capture sharper photos than Swift, but it takes up to two days to point Hubble at a new target, Cenko said. It takes Swift mere minutes.”
“Published May 28 in the journal Communications Earth & Environment”
“And over time, our exceptional operations team, led by Penn State, has found new and innovative ways for the satellite to rapidly respond to these discoveries.”
“U.S. imports more than 50% of its lithium, mostly from Chile and Argentina.”
“Rocket Lab launched the "Ten Owl of Ten" mission from New Zealand today (June 26)”
“the existing Nevada mine and the 22 proposed mines that are the closest to coming online”
“sent up Synspective's 10th synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite”
“Southern California's Salton Sea contains roughly 4.5 million tons (4.1 million metric tons) of lithium.”
“The launch was Rocket Lab's 12th so far in 2026, and the ninth for Electron this year”
“Unlike digital bits in a classical computer, which are represented as either "on" or "off," a quantum bit (qubit) has a much higher failure rate — roughly 1 in 1,000, compared with 1 in 1 billion for digital bits.”
“stands 59 feet (18 meters) tall”
“In the new study, published May 9 in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers described how this quantum computing chip uses photons captured from laser pulses as qubits.”
“can launch payloads weighing up to 661 pounds (300 kilograms)”
“The chip can be programmed to imitate errors in multiple ways, thus making it possible to simulate specific types of loss due to noise. The researchers can essentially modulate the amount of noise the system simulates in order to generate …”
“with 17 more on the rocket's manifest expected to launch before 2030”
“Krishna, G., Gao, J., O’Brien, S., Yadgirkar, R., Deenadayalan, V., Preble, S., Zwiller, V., & Elshaari, A. W. (2026). Emulation of coherent absorption of Fock-state quantum light in a programmable linear photonic circuit. Nature Communica…”
“Each Strix satellite weighs about 220 pounds (100 kg)”
“Neanderthals were among the closest relatives of modern humans, with their lineages diverging around 500,000 years ago.”
“stretches to 16.4 feet (5 meters) wide”
“they are usually thought to have gone extinct about 40,000 years ago.”
“on-orbit lifespan of about five years”
“Until the new study, only four were available, three of which came from Russia, at the edge of the Neanderthals' geographic range.”
“cruise in LEO between 15 and45 degrees of inclination”
“In the new study, published Wednesday (June 24) in the journal Nature, scientists recovered genetic data from 27 more Neanderthals, including a new high-quality genome...”
“deliver the "Ten Owl of Ten" Strix to an inclination of 42 degrees, at a LEO altitude of 343 miles (552 kilometers)”
“The new data comes from 10 archaeological sites in northwestern Europe, in present-day Belgium and France.”
“second stage separated about 2 minutes, 40 seconds after liftoff today”
“Seven of these sites were located in the Meuse Basin in Belgium...”
“with the third or "kick" stage taking over about nine minutes into flight”
“The genetic analysis revealed the late Neanderthals of northwestern Europe separated from a common ancestor with other known Neanderthals about 54,000 years ago.”
“Payload separation occurred on schedule 45 minutes later, around T+1 hour after liftoff”
“The late Neanderthals of northwestern Europe were contemporaries of modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe for up to 500 generations, the researchers said.”
“which is located around 1,110 light‑years from Earth.”
“the newly analyzed late Neanderthals of northwestern Europe displayed a significant level of genetic diversity, dividing into at least four distinct groups, the researchers found.”
“the solar system's most massive planet has a density 28 times greater than TOI-791 c and 35 times greater than TOI-791 b.”
“For instance, a 2025 study suggested that different versions of a gene tied to red blood cell function might have caused Neanderthal-human hybrid women to miscarry their fetuses.”
“the inner planet complete five orbits as the outer planet completes three orbits. This is known as a 5:3 mean‑motion resonance.”
“lasting 11 hours per planet”
“TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c were first identified as candidate planets in 2019 and 2023, respectively”
“The team's research was published on Thursday (June 25) in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.”
“Both planets, designated TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c, have densities lower than that of cotton candy, making them the lightest exoplanets ever seen.”
“The two planets orbit a dwarf star called TOI-791, which is located around 1,110 light-years from Earth.”
“Both planets are around the same size as Jupiter, but the solar system's most massive planet has a density 28 times greater than TOI-791 c and 35 times greater than TOI-791 b.”
“The super-puff siblings are also locked in a rare dance that sees the inner planet complete five orbits as the outer planet completes three orbits. This is known as a 5:3 mean-motion resonance.”
“These transits are some of the longest ever seen, lasting 11 hours per planet, and were integral to discovering the worlds.”
“TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c were first identified as candidate planets in 2019 and 2023, respectively, when the Planet Hunters citizen scientist group assessed data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Sat…”
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“100 to 51,200 (expanded 50 to 102,400) ISO range”
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“We didn't find a single galaxy, but an entire complex of at least six galaxies”
“These six galaxies sit at a redshift of 4.0, which equates to a time about 12 billion years ago, just 1.8 billion years after the Big Bang”
“The six galaxies of TGSSJ1530+1049 span a volume only a few tens of thousands of light-years across, which is smaller than our Milky Way galaxy”
“and yet, they pack in a humungous amount of stars, equivalent to hundreds of billions of solar masses”
“a star-formation rate somewhere between 70–163 solar masses per year”
“compared to the Milky Way, which produces much less than ten solar masses per year”
“radio observations with the European VLBI (very long Baseline Interferometer) Network and the U.K.'s e-MERLIN (enhanced Multi-Element Remotely Linked Interferometer Network) at a resolution on the scale of a 100 milliarcseconds”
“TGSSJ1530+1049 is one of the densest collections of heavyweight galaxies found in the early universe so far”
“they pack in a humungous amount of stars, equivalent to hundreds of billions of solar masses”
“which is set to open on Nov. 13, the museum announced on Wednesday (June 24).”
“The space shuttle Endeavour is absolutely breathtaking in its 20-story new home at the California Science Center's brand-new Air & Space Center”
“towering at nearly 200 feet (61 meters) tall”
“Endeavour first arrived at the California Science Center in October of 2012.”
“Four years later, in 2016, ET-94, the shuttle's external fuel tank, arrived.”
“And seven years after that, in 2023, two solid rocket boosters arrived”
“a 12-mile (19 kilometers) trek from Los Angeles International Airport to the California Science Center that took the craft 68 hours.”
“The new Air & Space Center was first imagined as part of a museum expansion plan all the way back in 1993.”
“After NASA's space shuttle program ended in 2011”
“Olivas, who flew on two shuttle missions (STS-128 and STS 117)”
