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.

1. James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise (www.smithsonianmag.com)
   356 points by instagraham 26 days ago | 310 comments
2. SpacetimeDB (spacetimedb.com)
   347 points by matthewfcarlson 17 days ago | 176 comments
3. Don't sell space in your homelab (2023) (grumpy.systems)
   120 points by Wingy 13 days ago | 101 comments
4. Starliner's flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought (arstechnica.com)
   95 points by ranger207 25 days ago | 3 comments
5. Ultra-precision formation flying demonstration for space-based interferometry (arxiv.org)
   70 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 23 comments
6. Tracking the international space station with an Arduino (faridrener.com)
   67 points by proteusvacuum 21 days ago | 6 comments
7. SpacetimeDB v1.0: Multiplayer at the speed of light (github.com)
   65 points by ksec 21 days ago | 22 comments
8. Space Debris: Is It a Crisis? (www.esa.int)
   61 points by defrost 23 days ago | 67 comments
9. Food fermentation in space: Opportunities and challenges (www.cell.com)
   44 points by bookofjoe 20 days ago | 9 comments
10. FSKit: Implement a file system that runs in user space (developer.apple.com)
    41 points by ingve 26 days ago | 6 comments
11. SpaceX's Fram2 returns from first-of-its-kind mission around Earth's poles (www.cnn.com)
    39 points by TMWNN 22 days ago | 31 comments
12. Space Station Flight Was 'Wilder' Than We Thought (science.slashdot.org)
    36 points by pain_perdu 21 days ago | 23 comments
13. Willy Ley was a prophet of space travel (www.nytimes.com)
    27 points by Stratoscope 4 days ago | 9 comments
14. The reasons SpaceX won nearly all recent military launch contracts (arstechnica.com)
    20 points by LorenDB 17 days ago | 2 comments
15. Why are two TX senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian? (arstechnica.com)
    17 points by pmags 9 days ago | 4 comments
16. NASA's Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants to Kill It (www.scientificamerican.com)
    16 points by croes 4 days ago | 5 comments
17. SpaceX launches private Fram2 astronauts on first spaceflight over Earth's poles (www.space.com)
    16 points by decimalenough 26 days ago | 3 comments
18. Trump administration science director: US tech can 'manipulate time and space' (www.baltimoresun.com)
    15 points by treetalker 9 days ago | 6 comments
19. Oldest Satellite Has Been in Space for 67 Years. Engineers Want to Bring It Home (gizmodo.com)
    15 points by bradac56 7 days ago | 5 comments
20. Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield (www.reuters.com)
    15 points by c420 9 days ago | 1 comments
21. U.S. military aims to turn island bird refuge into SpaceX rocket site (www.washingtonpost.com)
    15 points by MilnerRoute 22 days ago | 1 comments
22. Who Owns SpaceX? (www.muskwatch.com)
    15 points by chmaynard 12 days ago | discuss
23. Show HN: Owl, a Spaced Repetition App (owl.cards)
    14 points by fredoliveira 23 days ago | 15 comments
24. Doge cuts spark questions as employees supporting Musk space launches spared (www.theguardian.com)
    14 points by n1b0m 8 days ago | 3 comments
25. Space Force Commander Greenland Sent Out Email Breaking with Vance After Visit (www.military.com)
    14 points by croes 15 days ago | 2 comments
26. Generative Modelling in Latent Space (sander.ai)
    14 points by xavriley 11 days ago | discuss
27. The reasons SpaceX won nearly all recent military launch contracts (arstechnica.com)
    13 points by teleforce 16 days ago | 8 comments
28. NASA's next space-telescope is almost ready to launch but may be killed by cuts (www.scientificamerican.com)
    13 points by ck2 8 days ago | 3 comments
29. Musk's shadow grows over space industry (www.politico.com)
    13 points by c420 10 days ago | discuss
30. School student uses AI to reveal 1.5M previously unknown objects in space (phys.org)
    12 points by Brajeshwar 13 days ago | discuss