Viasat sees orbital data center partnership opportunity
Friday, 06 February 2026 21:56
While Viasat has no plans to join the rush to deploy orbital data centers, the satellite operator sees a role providing the communications links needed to connect such systems with users on Earth and other spacecraft.
The dirty afterlife of a dead satellite
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‘We helped usher in the modern era of AI in NGA.’
Friday, 06 February 2026 15:56
In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million.
‘Serving the country and pushing the boundaries of human existence is very purposeful.’
Friday, 06 February 2026 15:56
‘I loved thinking about how to make science possible for America and for the world’
Friday, 06 February 2026 15:55
‘You need competent people in the government to direct and make decisions.’
Friday, 06 February 2026 15:55
In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million.
‘Now it’s time to turn the baton over to others. I hope there’s somebody else to grab that baton.’
Friday, 06 February 2026 15:54
‘People knew that they could come to us to figure out how to get things done.’
Friday, 06 February 2026 15:53
In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million.
‘As far as I know, I’m still the assistant administrator of NESDIS.’
Friday, 06 February 2026 15:53
‘Leaders can be replaced, institutional knowledge cannot’
Friday, 06 February 2026 15:52
Week in images: 02-06 February 2026
Friday, 06 February 2026 13:10
Week in images: 02-06 February 2026
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NASA selects two Earth science missions for development
Friday, 06 February 2026 11:53
NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on studying the atmosphere and the other on terrestrial ecosystems and ice.
One dimensional anyons offer tunable quantum statistics
Friday, 06 February 2026 10:38
Physicists have traditionally divided all elementary particles in three dimensional space into just two categories, bosons and fermions, depending on how systems of identical particles behave when the particles exchange places. In standard quantum theory, experimental observations in three dimensions point to a strict binary: when two identical particles swap positions, the combined quantum stat