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September 2026
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Aerospace
On 12 August 2026, Heart Aerospace's X1 lifted off from Plattsburgh, New York, weighing more than 25,000 pounds with a 106-foot wingspan, and flew for 27 minutes on roughly $5 of electricity — the largest battery-electric aircraft ever to leave the ground
Space Scopes
On 14 April, the 5,000 fibre-optic eyes of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument locked onto a patch of sky near the Little Dipper and completed the largest high-resolution 3D map of the universe ever made, tracing dark energy's pull across 11 billion years of cosmic history
Mars Daily
People who keep old birthday cards, faded ticket stubs, and handwritten notes in a drawer they rarely open aren't sentimental hoarders, they're keeping proof that certain moments actually happened
Terradaily
Terra reached its final Earth orbit on 24 February 2000 after 11 weeks of checkout and eight ascent burns, and mission scientists stopped nudging its inclination back in 2020, letting the satellite quietly drift out of its contained orbit as retirement approaches
Mars Daily