NASA selects a mission to map glaciers and forests while the US Army awards a contract to rebuild launchers and GitHub repositories gain popularity.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-24 00:28Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A sprawling landscape of astronauts and engineers working together in a vast, sunlit laboratory, surrounded by models of rockets, lunar craters, and glaciers, with a massive screenless telescope in the background, as a group of people in the foreground examine a sample of lunar soil, bathed in a warm, golden light.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A sprawling landscape of astronauts and engineers working together in a vast, sunlit laboratory, surrounded by models of rockets, lunar craters, and glaciers, with a massive screenless telescope in the background, as a group of people in the foreground examine a sample of lunar soil, bathed in a warm, golden light. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
35a41d03ed5b57489abd397c358841a58fa4b6af34e9919ff1cbf6b2ce94b3eb
South Korea targets Oct 7 for fifth Nuri rocket launch
The 15-satellite mission from Naro Space Center will test a new low-impact separation device and assess collision risk with crewed spacecraft.
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South Korea's fifth Nuri rocket is set to launch on Oct 7, 2026, from Naro Space Center in Goheung, carrying 15 satellites to a 570 km orbit. The Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) held a press briefing on 2025-07-15 in Seoul to reveal the characteristics of the 15 satellites to be carried on the 5th Nuri rocket. Assembly at the pad is ongoing, with final inspections planned by Oct 5 and rollout to the launch pad on Oct 6.
The mission will debut a low-impact satellite separation device designed to reduce shock during primary payload release, and launch planners will factor in collision probability with crewed spacecraft such as the ISS when determining whether to proceed. The Nuri advancement project, running from 2022 to 2028, has a total budget of 796.8 billion South Korean won to improve launch vehicle reliability and foster the domestic launch industry.
Separately, China launched three Diting-01 satellites aboard a Lijian-1 Y18 rocket from Jiuquan on Sunday. India is targeting a launch window between Oct 15 and 20 for the NVS-03 navigation satellite on a GSLV-Mk2 rocket from Sriharikota.
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