Hackernews posts about SPAC
SPAC is an acronym for "Special Purpose Acquisition Company", which is a type of publicly traded company that raises capital to take another private company public through a merger or acquisition.
- Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 (spaceinafrica.com)
- James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- NASA to launch space observatory that will map 450M galaxies (www.nbcnews.com)
- Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon (www.theguardian.com)
- Bending Spacetime in the Basement (1997) (www.fourmilab.ch)
- Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition (map.koljapluemer.com)
- EmptyEpsilon open source spaceship bridge simulator (daid.github.io)
- Show HN: My high school team’s space probe (drive.google.com)
- Pierogi in Space (www.esa.int)
- The disappearance of Gaia, ESA spacecraft will be turned off on 27 March 2025 (www.cosmos.esa.int)
- Space Invaders (www.computerarcheology.com)
- SpaceX launches Starship Flight 8 - Loses attitude control (www.spacex.com)
- Elon Musk's SpaceX Allows Investment from China (www.propublica.org)
- Sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd (theconversation.com)
- Can NASA remain nonpartisan when basic spaceflight truths are shredded? (arstechnica.com)
- FSKit: Implement a file system that runs in user space (developer.apple.com)
- SpacetimeDB v1.0.0 (spacetimedb.com)
- China bans compulsory facial recognition; use in private spaces like hotel rooms (www.theregister.com)
- SpaceX asks US to address foreign trade barriers (www.reuters.com)
- A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space (www.nature.com)
- SpaceX's Starship explodes in second failure for Musk's Mars program (www.theguardian.com)
- NASA Astronauts Depart Space Station After Nine Months in Orbit (www.bloomberg.com)
- Show HN: SpacetimeDB 1.0 Is Here (github.com)
- Breakup of SpaceX's Starship Rocket Disrupts Florida Airports (www.nytimes.com)
- Italy is having growing doubts about closing €1.5B deal with SpaceX for Starlink (www.bloomberg.com)