The Register: Science

• No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon
• NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
• Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization
• Intuitive Machines blames dim lighting and dodgy data for second lunar faceplant
• Saudi CubeSat gets golden ticket on doomed SLS rocket
• NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now
• Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies
• After more than half a century, the voyage of Kosmos 482 is over
• Mars may have vast underground oceans and enough H₂O to make it a water world
• Fusion eggheads claim modeling fix for particle escape - at least in stellarators

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