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NASA has completed a new thirty-four-meter radio antenna at its Goldstone complex in California, strengthening the Deep Space Network that keeps humanity in contact with probes across the solar system. The dish, designated Deep Space Station twenty-three, comes as demand on the aging network continues to grow alongside an expanding fleet of interplanetary missions.
Meanwhile, SpaceX is thinking much bigger on the ground. Elon Musk's company has announced plans for a one hundred billion dollar spaceport in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, featuring five launch complexes built around Starship operations. The project spans ten years and signals SpaceX's intent to diversify beyond its Texas facilities as launch cadence climbs.
And a quieter but consequential shift is happening across the web. A Pew Research Center study found that more than a third of web pages published since the launch of ChatGPT show signs of AI authorship. That figure rises sharply when you narrow the window to recent content, raising real questions about trust, attribution, and what we actually mean when we talk about human expression online.
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