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Notes · August 8, 2026
Notes for August 8, 2026
Voyager 2 Was Built to Last Five Years. It Is About to Turn 49.
NASA’s “Big Bang” power fix keeps Voyager 2’s three remaining science instruments running another year on a probe launched in 1977 for a five-year mission—now nearly 49 years old and still returning data from interstellar space.
Inspired by space.com · Space.com
The Department of Energy Is Building an American Open Model for Science
DOE’s Genesis Open Models and Arcee AI’s Genesis-Science-1 treat open-weight foundation models as scientific infrastructure—weights, provenance, and lab collaboration for research that closed frontier APIs cannot fully serve.
Inspired by genesisopenmodels.anl.gov · U.S. Department of Energy / Argonne National Laboratory