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Selected stories from September 21, 2026. This is a sample of our story selection, not a previously sent email.

Starship beside its launch tower, with orange engine exhaust and clouds spreading across the pad. — File photo · 2024 · Steve Jurvetson / CC BY 2.0 · Cropped

Space · Analysis

Starship’s next test: six orbits, 26 satellites—and a way home

SpaceX’s planned orbital debut connects satellite delivery to the harder ambition of a reusable space transport.

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AI · Analysis

Claude is helping build the next Claude. What’s still up to humans?

Anthropic’s September 17 disclosure opens a question about what its research measurements actually establish.

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Culture & Life · Analysis

George Lucas’s new museum is about more than Star Wars

Movie designs, magazine illustrations and contested histories ask us to look again at familiar pictures.

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Technology · Analysis

The airspace clue in Tesla’s Roadster countdown

A Texas restriction has sharpened anticipation. Its most telling detail concerns the spectators.

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