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Only one event related to the science domain was recorded in this period. A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage, launched in 2015, is predicted to impact the far side of the Moon on March 4, 2022. The impact is expected to create a roughly 27-meter-wide crater and has raised concerns about space debris amid intensifying lunar exploration.
A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage, launched in 2015 for the DSCOVR mission, is predicted to impact the far side of the Moon on March 4, 2022.
The 4,000 kg object will strike at 5,700 mph, creating a 27-meter-wide crater with energy equivalent to 3 tons of TNT.
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and South Korea's Danuri orbiter will monitor the impact event.
The event has raised concerns about space debris as lunar exploration activities intensify.
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Events matched to this subject by the tracking pipeline, with signal scores.
Google Quantum AI reported in the journal Science the first hardware demonstration of "magic state cultivation" on its Willow processor, reducing errors for prepared quantum states by roughly 40 times and achieving 99.99% logical fidelity. The technique discards failing states while they are still small, using no more than 54 of Willow's 105 qubits. Google says the method must still be validated at larger scale, but if it scales, it could reduce the hardware needed for useful, error-corrected quantum computers.
