Some upgrades to the Alpha rocket will be tested on FLTA007.

The upgraded Alpha rocket will include new batteries and avionics.

Key subsystems of the Alpha rocket will be tested on an upcoming launch.

Firefly announced an upgraded Block II variant of their Alpha rocket to improve reliability and streamline production.

There is a possible configuration of the vehicle if the static fire stage is reused.

The significant event at Pad 301 may refer to the Mengzhou Max-Q abort test.

Pad 301 at WSLC is expected to have a significant event happen at the end of January.

The test may be postponed to after the Spring Festival at the end of February.

3.5 out of 4 lightning towers have been completed at Pad 301 of WSLC.

1 out of 4 lightning towers has been completed for the CZ-10 series pad.

The ZQ-3 Y2 was still at Land Space's factory as of January 13, 2026.

Land Space may be conducting stages pre-assembly or the next ZQ-3 may have left the factory.

The location where Land Space originally placed the ZQ-3's second stage now has a ZQ-2's support stand.

The electrons in the MXene could be excited to absorb ultraviolet photons and reach higher energy levels based on pulse wavelength.

The study can help predict conditions under which certain electrons contribute to heat conduction.

The researchers published their results in the scientific journal Science.

Researchers at ETH have conducted pioneering work in attosecond spectroscopy over the past thirty years.

Electrons lagged behind atomic nuclei by up to thirty femtoseconds, which is significant in the attosecond domain.

The study revealed how electrons behave in relation to different atoms of the MXene.

The researchers irradiated the MXene with an attosecond laser pulse in the extreme ultraviolet to measure laser light transmission.

A better understanding of energy and charge transport can enhance control over materials for opto-electronic devices.

Attosecond spectroscopy is used by scientists to study physical events with time resolution of around 10^-18 seconds.

While studying phonons in MXenes, researchers discovered an unexpected delay in the motion of electrons.

By varying time separation between laser pulses from a few femtoseconds to picoseconds, physicists determined the delay in electron response.

MXenes are two-dimensional materials similar to graphene and consist of layers of bonded titanium, carbon, and oxygen atoms.

The researchers repeated experiments without exciting lattice vibrations to infer electron and atomic nuclei motion.

Insights into heat conduction at the atomic level may lead to the development of smaller and more efficient electronic components.

The ETH researchers excited lattice vibrations in the MXene using a short infrared laser pulse.

Ursula Keller and Lukas Gallmann at the Department of Physics at ETH proved that electrons in MXenes respond to atomic nuclei motion with a delay.

The researchers' method allows measurement of coupling strength between electrons and lattice vibrations.

The delay in electron response depends on the localization of the electrons and their energy state.

The detailed resolution of dynamics between electrons and phonons at the single atom level was achieved using attosecond technology.

Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter have shown that electrons in certain materials respond with a delay.

Vibrations of the atomic nuclei influence the spatial distribution of electrons and change the electromagnetic field around the atoms.

ETH researchers compared their data to a mathematical model from their Hamburg colleagues to gain insights about electron behavior.

Ushikuvirus expands the set of known viruses infecting free-living amoebae.

The study of giant DNA viruses is focused on their evolutionary connection to eukaryotic cellular compartments.

Ushikuvirus carries multiple spike structures on its capsid surface that exhibit unique caps and filamentous extensions not found in medusaviruses.

Understanding how giant viruses infect and destroy amoebae could inform strategies to prevent or manage diseases involving protist pathogens.

Ushikuvirus is a newly isolated giant virus named after Lake Ushiku in Ibaraki Prefecture, where it was found.

Ushikuvirus infects vermamoeba and belongs to a group of large DNA viruses related to the family Mamonoviridae.

Ushikuvirus infection of vermamoeba produces a specific cytopathic effect that causes host cells to grow into unusually large cells.

Researchers are systematically examining structural features and infection strategies of giant viruses to detail their evolutionary history.

Some Acanthamoeba species can cause serious conditions such as amoebic encephalitis.

Ushikuvirus is morphologically similar to Mamonoviridae members such as Medusavirus, featuring an icosahedral capsid with numerous short spikes on its surface.

Ushikuvirus disrupts the host cell nuclear membrane to generate viral particles during replication.

Professor Masaharu Takemura leads the study on ushikuvirus at the Graduate School of Science at Tokyo University of Science.

Contrast in replication modes suggests a phylogenetic link between Mamonoviridae viruses that rely on an intact nucleus and giant viruses that disrupt nuclear membranes.

The FCC resolution establishes deadlines: at least 50% of the Gen2 satellites must be operational by December 1, 2028.

The remaining Gen2 satellites have a deadline of December 2031 for operation.