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  1. Tomorrow morning, Australia will play a vital role in supporting #ArtemisII through the @canberradsn - the CDSCC (and as part of Australia's national science agency, CSIRO)

    I spoke with folks at CDSCC, along with Associated Prof. Alice Gorman (Dr Space Junk), folks at NASA and more about this historical mission.

    The CDSCC is not the only Aussie team that is working with the Artemis II mission - researchers from the Australian National University are also testing emerging technology that allows data to be transmitted via lasers, instead of radio waves at Mount Stromlo.

    Importantly, Artemis II is going to set some new records that have not been attempted for 54 years.

    And for the first time, the first woman, the first person of colour and the first non-American will travel to lunar space.

    Godspeed, humans! Ad Astra!

    spaceaustralia.com/feature/aus

    📸 R.Mandow / Nic Vevers / ANU / ULA

    #SpaceAustralia #SpaceExploration #Moon #MoonLanding #NASA #Astrodon

  2. Weekly output: NASA reopens lunar-lander contract, Verizon adds “Lite” home-5G plan

    I got out of bed earlier than usual today to go cheer for people who had woken much earlier to go run 26.2 miles, because I see supporting people running the Marine Corps Marathon as a civic duty. Saturday saw me taking on another civic duty: poll-worker training for the 15-plus-hour day I have coming up Nov. 4.

    Patreon readers got a bonus post from me this week: an explanation of why it pays for freelancers to know which topics don’t have full-time coverage by a staff writer at a client.

    10/21/2025: NASA Reopens Lunar Lander Contract, and Elon Musk Is Big Mad, PCMag

    I wasn’t sure that NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy saying that the space agency would seek new bids to build a lunar lander for the first U.S. moon landing since 1972 would amount to a PCMag story. And then Elon went on a rage-tweeting spree about that…

    10/23/2025: Verizon Adds Cheaper, Data-Capped ‘Lite’ Wireless Home Broadband Option, PCMag

    Verizon is a few years behind T-Mobile in selling a data-capped version of its home fixed-wireless service in areas with limited capacity, but its data cap is much more forgiving than T-Mobile’s.

    #ArtemisIII #ElonMuskX #fixedWireless #FWA #HLS #home5G #moonLanding #SeanDuffy #Starship #Verizon5GHome