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. Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 (spaceinafrica.com)
   395 points by vinnyglennon 7 days ago | 225 comments
2. James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise (www.smithsonianmag.com)
   352 points by instagraham 3 days ago | 303 comments
3. NASA to launch space observatory that will map 450M galaxies (www.nbcnews.com)
   270 points by gmays 26 days ago | 121 comments
4. Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon (www.theguardian.com)
   263 points by pseudolus 26 days ago | 340 comments
5. Bending Spacetime in the Basement (1997) (www.fourmilab.ch)
   240 points by wizardforhire 23 days ago | 58 comments
6. Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition (map.koljapluemer.com)
   217 points by blackbrokkoli 16 days ago | 83 comments
7. EmptyEpsilon open source spaceship bridge simulator (daid.github.io)
   161 points by mmooss 13 days ago | 20 comments
8. Show HN: My high school team’s space probe (drive.google.com)
   157 points by JohnOfOsgiliath 18 days ago | 35 comments
9. Pierogi in Space (www.esa.int)
   154 points by stared 14 days ago | 45 comments
10. The disappearance of Gaia, ESA spacecraft will be turned off on 27 March 2025 (www.cosmos.esa.int)
    126 points by croes 7 days ago | 45 comments
11. Space Invaders (www.computerarcheology.com)
    98 points by Tomte 22 days ago | 39 comments
12. Show HN: A website for sharing the "Good, Bad, and Why"s of urban spaces (dedede.de)
    89 points by kappasan 9 days ago | 20 comments
13. SpaceX launches Starship Flight 8 - Loses attitude control (www.spacex.com)
    67 points by s1artibartfast 27 days ago | 59 comments
14. Elon Musk's SpaceX Allows Investment from China (www.propublica.org)
    62 points by danso 7 days ago | 9 comments
15. Starliner's flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought (arstechnica.com)
    51 points by ranger207 1 day ago | 3 comments
16. Sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd (theconversation.com)
    49 points by amichail 15 days ago | 15 comments
17. Can NASA remain nonpartisan when basic spaceflight truths are shredded? (arstechnica.com)
    47 points by rbanffy 14 days ago | 45 comments
18. SpaceX teams up with Thiel's Palantir, Anduril on American Golden Dome (www.msn.com)
    44 points by muskdom 25 days ago | 58 comments
19. FSKit: Implement a file system that runs in user space (developer.apple.com)
    41 points by ingve 2 days ago | 6 comments
20. Integrated sensing and communication based on space-time-coding metasurfaces (www.nature.com)
    40 points by westurner 29 days ago | 5 comments
21. SpacetimeDB v1.0.0 (spacetimedb.com)
    39 points by cloutiertyler 29 days ago | 4 comments
22. China bans compulsory facial recognition; use in private spaces like hotel rooms (www.theregister.com)
    33 points by rntn 10 days ago | 2 comments
23. SpaceX asks US to address foreign trade barriers (www.reuters.com)
    29 points by JumpCrisscross 17 days ago | 20 comments
24. A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space (www.nature.com)
    29 points by giuliomagnifico 25 days ago | discuss
25. SpaceX's Starship explodes in second failure for Musk's Mars program (www.theguardian.com)
    28 points by prawn 27 days ago | 1 comments
26. NASA Astronauts Depart Space Station After Nine Months in Orbit (www.bloomberg.com)
    23 points by JumpCrisscross 16 days ago | 18 comments
27. Starliner Astronauts Return to Earth After More Than 9 Months in Space (www.cnn.com)
    23 points by m463 15 days ago | 5 comments
28. Show HN: SpacetimeDB 1.0 Is Here (github.com)
    21 points by cloutiertyler 29 days ago | 3 comments
29. Breakup of SpaceX's Starship Rocket Disrupts Florida Airports (www.nytimes.com)
    19 points by FireBeyond 27 days ago | 3 comments
30. Italy is having growing doubts about closing €1.5B deal with SpaceX for Starlink (www.bloomberg.com)
    18 points by donsupreme 28 days ago | 7 comments