NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched August 30, 2026 at 7:26 AM Eastern from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, achieving stage separation by 8:00 AM. It will spend several months traveling 1.5 million kilometers to Earth's L2 point, parking near JWST. Its 300-megapixel infrared camera powers up in roughly three weeks. Built partly from National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite hardware, Roman's field of view is 100 times wider than Hubble's.
EVE Online's developers announced a migration of 2.4 million lines of code from Python 2.7 to Python 3. The codebase has been frozen at 2.7 since 2010, sixteen years past the last overhaul and six years past Python 2.7's official end-of-life in 2020. The stated drivers are library incompatibility and the prospect of Python 3 speed gains feeding into game performance. The announcement is unusually detailed about internal engineering tradeoffs, worth reading for anyone managing a legacy Python migration at scale.
The UK passed regulatory amendments this week legalizing plug-in solar systems for residential use. Consumers can now self-install if wiring meets requirements, no electrician required, though landlord and local authority approval may still apply. Three distinct stories in one links post: a flagship space observatory, a 16-year-old codebase finally moving forward, and a quiet policy shift that changes who can generate their own power. The original covers all three in full.
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