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NASA just parked a spacecraft 1 million miles from Earth, and almost no one’s talking about it

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has officially reached the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L1) ...
primetimer

NASA IMAP reaches Sun-Earth Lagrange point for heliosphere studies

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) reached the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 1 (L1) on January 10, 2026, approximately 1 million miles from Earth toward the Sun, according to NASA.
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

NASA’s IMAP Reaches Orbit to Start Study of Heliosphere and Space Weather

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point ...
IEEE

Dynamic Grasping for Free-Flying Space Robots via Deep Lagrangian Network Assisted Reinforcement Learning

Abstract: Capturing moving targets is crucial in various space missions. However, the base and manipulator coupling of free-flying space robots (FFSRs) imposes challenges to traditional analytical ...
The White House

ENSURING AMERICAN SPACE SUPERIORITY

Section 1. Purpose. Superiority in space is a measure of national vision and willpower, and the technologies Americans develop to achieve it contribute substantially to the Nation’s strength, security ...
NPR

Could architecture in space make a greener Earth?

Humankind has the technology to go to space. Space architect Ariel Ekblaw says the bottleneck now is real estate: getting larger volumes of space stations in orbit. Her company is working on the ...
IEEE

Bézier Surface-Guided Sampling Space Constraint for Neural Point Cloud Geometry Compression

Abstract: Implicit Neural Representations (INRs), capable of learning the mapping between sampling coordinates and occupancy statuses to effectively represent 3D content, are increasingly adopted in ...