NASA targets 2028 lunar south pole landing and requests nuclear reactor designs while SpaceX stock rises and Hubble detects Saturn's wave.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-07 00:24Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
Astronomers in a crowded control room gaze up at a massive screenless window showing Saturn's rings and a glowing ten-sided wave as a SpaceX rocket launches in the distance under a starry night sky.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: Astronomers in a crowded control room gaze up at a massive screenless window showing Saturn's rings and a glowing ten-sided wave as a SpaceX rocket launches in the distance under a starry night sky. 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)
5664de4e0e93e7b819233271660d2823df213819e2a8278d88160e251bf1551a
NASA obligated $141.1M across four space vendors on 2 October 2026
Four separate contract obligations were posted by the agency on the same day, led by a $96.9M award to Northrop Grumman.
By Luisa Marconi · 14mNASA posted four separate contract obligations totalling $141.1M on 2 October 2026.
Federal spending data shows the largest single obligation that day was $96.9M to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation. Additional obligations included $33.3M to Amentum Spaceport LLC, $9.15M to Space Exploration Technologies Corp., and $1.79M to Chenega Global Protection, LLC.
All four entries were drawn against existing active awards. Total obligations to date on those awards stand at $1.5B for Northrop Grumman, $662M for Amentum, $125M for SpaceX and $7.86M for Chenega.
Read with its sources →
