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Update (1909ET): 

Seconds before launch, SpaceX halted the countdown at T-40 seconds as flight controllers addressed an undisclosed issue. 

"T-40 seconds and holding. Teams are using this time for final checks," SpaceX wrote on X. 

Minutes later, SpaceX announced that Test Flight 8 would be scrapped due to an undisclosed issue with the Super Heavy booster.

"Standing down from today's flight test attempt. Starship team is determining the next best (more…)

Chinese authorities are quietly instructing top artificial intelligence entrepreneurs and researchers to avoid traveling to the United States, signaling Beijing’s intensifying focus on AI as both an economic and national security priority, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter.

Photo: Ling Tang / Unsplash

The guidance, while not an outright ban, reflects concerns that overseas trips by leading AI experts could lead to the disclosure of (more…)

Shares of Houston-based Intuitive Machines plunged 22%, the most in a year, as uncertainty remained over the confirmation of the company's second moon landing.

Intuitive Machines' Kam Ghaffarian said: "We have landed, we have indication they have power, and we're trying to figure out the rest of it."

Latest headlines (courtesy of Bloomberg): 

• LUNR said while the Athena lander appears to be on the moon's surface, its status remained unclear as of about 12:55 p.m. New York time

• The livestream that had been showing the control room for the landing ended

The Athena spacecraft was on landing approach around 1230 ET. 

This is Intuitive Machines' second moon landing attempt. The previous attempt did not go as planned; the IM-1 spacecraft tipped over on its side during a hard landing. ​

Meanwhile, four days ago, Firefly Aerospace's "Blue Ghost" lander made the first successful landing of a private spacecraft (more…)