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‘The High Republic: The Finale’ Review – One Disappointing Resolution Doesn’t Negate an Otherwise Nice Goodbye to the Initiative

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‘The High Republic: The Finale’ Review – One Disappointing Resolution Doesn’t Negate an Otherwise Nice Goodbye to the Initiative

And so, the High Republic publishing initiative is finally over. After countless books, comics, manga volumes, short stories, audio dramas, television shows, and four and a half years, the High Republic era can finally just be. This week’s The Finale one-shot from Marvel gives us our one final goodbye to one of Star Wars‘ richest and most ambitious tales. Much will be made about the High Republic in the coming months and years, but one thing is for certain: Star Wars had the guts to give us something new and vibrant, and it will live with me for a long, long time. Cavan Scott’s The High Republic: The Finale is the swan song to it all. The Nihil are defeated, leaving the Jedi and the Republic to begin to rebuild. This issue does a great job putting a nice bow on everything that came befo...

Frontgrade’s New Radiation-Tolerant, Scalable SpaceStor 4TB MMU Joins MAMBA Modular Space Systems Lineup

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Frontgrade’s New Radiation-Tolerant, Scalable SpaceStor 4TB MMU Joins MAMBA Modular Space Systems Lineup

Colorado Springs, CO — July 29, 2025 — Frontgrade Technologies, a leading provider of high-reliability electronic solutions for space and national security missions, has launched its operationally resilient SpaceStor™ Mass Memory Unit (MMU), a high capacity, solid state storage solution designed for mission-critical space applications. As the newest addition to Frontgrade’s MAMBA (Modular Applications for Mission processing with a Bifurcated Architecture) offering, the radiation-tolerant SpaceStor delivers up to 3.97 TB of reliable, NAND flash memory in a 3U SpaceVPX form factor, ideal for SWaP-C constrained and data-intensive missions. Delivering transaction throughput of up to 4Gb per second, SpaceStor’s significant capacity enables real-time, in-flight computing and pr...

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

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SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

A stack of 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites is pictured in low Earth orbit before being deployed from the upper stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. Image: SpaceX Update July 26, 7 a.m. EDT: SpaceX confirms deployment of the 28 Starlink satellites. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the predawn hours of Saturday with its latest batch of Starlink satellites. The flight came about a day and a half after the internet constellation experienced a global outage for more than two hours. The Starlink 10-26 mission will place another 28 satellites into low Earth orbit. According to expert orbital tracker and astronomer Jonathan McDowell, there are currently more than 8,000 Starlink satellites on orbit. SpaceX executed liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at 5:0...

Solar drone with wingspan wider than jumbo jet could fly for months

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Solar drone with wingspan wider than jumbo jet could fly for months

The Skydweller droneSkydweller A solar-powered surveillance drone with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet could fly for weeks or months at a time, according to its operator, while watching for drug-smuggling vessels, pirates or naval warships. It has been performing test flights off the US Gulf Coast this month. The Skydweller drone, operated by US-Spanish firm Skydweller Aero, has a wingspan of 72 metres – exceeding the width of most commercial passenger jets. But it weighs only about 2500 kilograms – as much as a Ford F-150 truck. It is based on the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft, which performed the first solar-powered flight around the world in 2016. Skydweller Aero purchased and converted the pioneering aircraft with the goal of building a fleet of similar so...

SpaceX to perform a static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the Crew-11 launch – Spaceflight Now

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SpaceX to perform a static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the Crew-11 launch – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the Crew Dragon Endeavour, is pictured at sunset on Sunday, July 27, 2025. It will launch the Crew-11 mission, which is schedule to liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, July 31, 2025. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is preparing for a mid-afternoon demonstration on Monday to verify the health of the Falcon 9 rocket that will carry four humans up to the International Space Station this week. The three astronauts and one cosmonaut of the mission, dubbed Crew-11, will carry out a long-duration stay onboard the orbiting outpost with liftoff planned for Thursday, July 31. The launch company will fuel its 70-meter-tall rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center before igniting the nine Merlin engines for a roughly...