Anonymous ID: fdf8ef March 12, 2026, 9:45 a.m. No.24372763   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2765 >>2854 >>2892 >>2945 >>2980

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/unions/2026/03/social-security-ordered-to-restore-telework-epa-and-nasa-roll-back-collective-bargaining/

 

Social Security ordered to restore telework; EPA and NASA roll back collective bargaining

March 11, 2026 7:03 pm

 

A third-party arbitrator is ordering the Social Security Administration to restore telework for many of its employees, after the agency indefinitely suspended workplace flexibilities under the Trump administration.

The arbitrator, in an order signed on Wednesday, directed SSA to restore telework for employees represented by the American Federation of Government Employees. The ruling brings back telework to levels that had been in place before mid-March 2025.

Early in his second term, President Donald Trump ordered all federal employees to return to the office full-time. Before this mandate, SSA employees represented by AFGE were generally allowed to telework about two days a week.

 

Arbitrator Sarah Miller Espinosa found that SSA violated its 2019 National Agreement with the American Federation of Government Employees when the agency stopped telework for many of its bargaining unit members.

“The agency’s breach of its commitment, which meant thousands of employees were mandated to forego approved telework and return indefinitely to full-time in-person work, clearly went to the heart of the parties’ agreement,” Espinosa wrote.

 

While the labor contract gives SSA management the discretion to temporarily pause telework in limited cases, Espinosa wrote that the agency’s actions “did not comport with any reasonable interpretation of ‘temporarily suspend’ based on operational needs,” and amounted to a “clear and patent breach” of its collective bargaining agreement with the union.

Espinosa also ordered SSA to “cease and desist from further violations” of its collective bargaining agreement with AFGE.

 

The arbitrator’s ruling won’t have an immediate impact on SSA’s workforce. An SSA spokesperson said in a statement that the agency “strongly disagrees with today’s flawed decision,” and will appeal it to the Federal Labor Relations Authority, which has a majority of Trump appointees.

“The federal government has a return to in-person work mandate. SSA has realized significant improvements in our performance, providing better, faster customer service for the American people through hands-on work and hands-on management,” the spokesperson said.

“Our federal workforce is stronger when we are in person, working shoulder-to-shoulder, serving the public,” the spokesperson added.

 

In March 2025, former acting Commissioner Leland Dudek told union officials that a pause on telework would only last 90 days. However, that suspension of telework extended beyond Dudek’s tenure and continued under the leadership of the current SSA commissioner, Frank Bisignano.

AFGE officials told the arbitrator that “the agency’s open-ended, indefinite suspension of telework operates as a functional elimination of regularly scheduled telework.”

Espinosa wrote that SSA “presented no testimony or persuasive documentary evidence” to determine how long this pause on telework would last, “measured either in days or months or as determined by circumstances or conditions specified by the agency.”

 

During the arbitration hearing, SSA didn’t call as witnesses any current or former agency officials involved in the decision to suspend telework.

Instead, the agency provided testimony from Ralph Patinella, a senior advisor to the Associate Commissioner for the Office of Labor-Management and Employee Relations, who, during his testimony, said a “temporary” suspension of telework could be “indefinite.”

 

Espinosa, however, rejected that claim and wrote that “by definition, temporary and indefinite are not synonymous.”

“The agency could easily have rebutted the evidence presented by the union and demonstrated that the cessation of telework was actually a suspension, that is, temporary in nature, if, in fact, that was the case,” she wrote.

“Despite ample opportunities to do so between the time of the suspension and through the hearing, however, the agency did not. The approach of ‘take our word for it’ is insufficient in light of the evidence presented.”

 

A provision in AFGE’s collective bargaining agreement with SSA gives agency management “sole discretion to temporarily change, reduce, or suspend approved telework day(s) for any employee(s), office, component, or agency-wide due to operational needs.”

The contract also gives agency management sole discretion to change, reduce, or suspend approved telework for any employee due to their performance.

 

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Anonymous ID: fdf8ef March 12, 2026, 9:45 a.m. No.24372765   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2854 >>2892 >>2945 >>2980

>>24372763

SSA told the arbitrator that it suspended telework for employees who were AFGE bargaining unit members “to address critical operational needs to improve the quality and timeliness of its customer service.”

“As of the beginning of 2025, the agency’s backlogs of pending claims were at or near all-time record highs, customers were waiting an unacceptable length of time to receive disability benefit decisions, and field offices were struggling to handle long lines, early office closures, and delays for in-office appointments based on a lack of available on-site employees due to telework,” the agency told the arbitrator.

 

SSA argued that the suspension of telework for field office employees “provided management with the capacity to assign more employees to assist in-person customers, avoided early office closures, and improved wait times for in-person appointments.”

Rich Couture, a spokesperson for the American Federation of Government Employees’ general committee for SSA, said the arbitrator’s ruling was a “positive step forward for SSA workers, who have had to pay thousands in commuting and childcare costs at a time when most AFGE bargaining unit employees aren’t making a living wage.”

 

A recent report from the Government Accountability Office found that SSA’s removal of telework opportunities has put the agency at risk of losing more staff, and that some employees told GAO they have considered leaving for jobs with more flexibility and better telework opportunities.

SSA lost at least 7,000 employees last year. “Telework was, and remains, essential to preventing attrition at a time when SSA needs every employee it can hold onto,” Couture said.

 

EPA rescinds contract with NTEU

The Environmental Protection Agency rescinded its collective bargaining agreement with its second-largest union, the National Treasury Employees Union.

An EPA spokesperson said in a statement that the agency rescinded its December 2024 collective bargaining agreement with NTEU “as part of EPA’s continuing efforts to comply with the law and diligently implement” an executive order President Donald Trump signed in March 2025.

Trump’s executive order greatly expanded the number of agencies that are excluded from collective bargaining because their mission impacts national security.

 

While legal challenges to the executive order remain ongoing, the Office of Personnel Management recently advised more agencies to rescind their collective bargaining agreements. The IRS rescinded its labor contract with NTEU in late February.

In a letter to EPA officials, NTEU National President Doreen Greenwald wrote that the agency “cannot lawfully terminate its CBA” with the union, and that its lawsuit challenging the legality of the executive order remains pending.

“While the EPA has purported to terminate its CBA with NTEU, it cannot lawfully do so, and that CBA remains in effect,” Greenwald said.

E&E News first reported on EPA’s rescission of its collective bargaining agreement with NTEU.

 

NASA deems employees ineligible for collective bargaining

NASA is in the process of rolling back collective bargaining rights for some of its employees, while a court battle challenging these decisions remains ongoing.

In an email obtained by Federal News Network, NASA’s human resources office told bargaining unit employees on Feb. 24 that their personnel records have been updated “to show that they are no longer eligible for inclusion in a bargaining unit.”

NASA is one of about 20 agencies that the Trump administration exempted from collective bargaining in a March 2025 executive order, on the grounds that it serves national security. Several lawsuits challenging this executive order remain ongoing.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., signed a preliminary injunction last fall blocking NASA and other agencies from enforcing a rollback of collective bargaining rights. An appeals court later stayed the lower court’s injunction while the case proceeds.

 

The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers is among the unions leading this lawsuit.

Matt Biggs, president of IFPTE, said he requested to meet with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman to discuss the agency updates to employee personnel files, but said NASA denied his request.

“NASA is attempting to implement this despite a pending legal challenge from IFPTE,” Biggs said.

A NASA spokesperson referred comments to the Justice Department. GovExec first reported on NASA’s updates to employee personnel files.

 

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Anonymous ID: fdf8ef March 12, 2026, 9:50 a.m. No.24372788   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2854 >>2892 >>2945 >>2980

A Most Unusual Lake

Mar 12, 2026

 

Scientists estimate that Earth is home to more than 100 million lakes. Among the most unusual is Lake Unter-See, one of Antarctica’s largest and deepest surface lakes, known for its distinctive water chemistry.

Its ice-covered waters have exceptionally high levels of dissolved oxygen, low dissolved carbon dioxide, and a strongly alkaline (basic) pH.

 

The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 9 captured this image on February 16, 2026, during the Antarctic summer.

Most of the lake's water comes from seasonal meltwater draining from the margins of the nearby Anuchin Glacier, which flows south from the Gruber Mountains in Queen Maud Land.

 

With mean annual temperatures of about minus 10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit), Lake Unter-See remains frozen year-round, its waters sealed beneath several meters of ice.

Sunlight penetrates the ice and warms the water below, but the cold surface and strong winds drive evaporation and sublimation, preventing significant surface melting. The lake's maximum depth is thought to reach nearly 170 meters (558 feet).

 

The lake’s water chemistry is unusual partly because it is one of the only perennially frozen lakes with a community of large, conical stromatolites.

The layered microbial reef structures grow slowly upward as photosynthetic microbes—primarily cyanobacteria—trap sediment on their sticky surfaces and form calcium carbonate mineral crusts.

These conical stromatolites—as well as pinnacle and flat forms of the microbial communities—release oxygen that becomes trapped under the ice, increasing its concentration in the lake.

 

Lake Unter-See's stromatolites, discovered by SETI geobiologist Dale Andersen and colleagues in 2011, offer a glimpse into a time more than 3 billion years ago, when microbes were the only form of life on Earth.

The formations are thought to be modern, living examples of the organisms that likely produced some of Earth's oldest fossils—stromatolites found in places such as southwestern Greenland and western Australia.

 

Some Antarctic lakes, such as Lake Joyce in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, contain conical stromatolites, but they reach only a few centimeters tall. By contrast, the formations in Lake Unter-See tower up to half a meter.

Scientists think Unter-See's stromatolites grow unusually tall because they are sheltered from tides and waves beneath permanent ice, live in exceptionally clear waters with little sediment, grow toward limited light, and face little grazing.

The lake’s largest creatures are tardigrades—microscopic "water bear" invertebrates known for their ability to survive in extreme environments.

 

Astrobiologists also point to the lake as a possible analog for the type of environment where life might have formed or survived on icy moons with oceans such as Europa and Enceladus, or perhaps on Mars, which has ice caps and glaciers.

Yet despite its seemingly stable conditions, Lake Unter-See occasionally experiences abrupt changes. During fieldwork in 2019, researchers observed an increase in the lake’s water levels.

The team, led by scientists at the University of Ottawa, later analyzed elevation data from NASA’s ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2) and confirmed a 2-meter rise was caused by a glacial lake outburst flood from nearby Lake Ober-See.

 

The University of Ottawa team also showed that the outburst flood had released 17.5 million cubic meters of meltwater, altering Unter-See’s pH and replenishing it with carbon dioxide-rich waters that likely enhanced the productivity of the lake's microbial life.

The scientists noted that similar periodic flooding may provide "biological stimuli to other carbon dioxide-depleted Antarctic ecosystems and perhaps even icy lakes on early Mars.”

 

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/a-most-unusual-lake/

Anonymous ID: fdf8ef March 12, 2026, 9:56 a.m. No.24372812   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2854 >>2869 >>2892 >>2945 >>2980

Dust Outbreak Reaches Europe

Mar 12, 2026

 

Winter winds lofted clouds of dust from the Sahara Desert, carrying it north toward the Mediterranean and dispersing it widely across Europe in March 2026.

When the dust combined with moisture-laden weather systems, a dirty rain fell in parts of Spain, France, and the United Kingdom.

 

This animation highlights the concentration and movement of dust throughout the region from March 1 to March 9.

It depicts dust column mass density—a measure of the amount of dust contained in a column of air—produced with a version of the GEOS (Goddard Earth Observing System) model.

The model integrates satellite data with mathematical equations that represent physical processes in the atmosphere.

 

The animation shows dust plumes originating in northwestern Africa being blown both to the west across the Atlantic Ocean and north toward the Mediterranean.

As plumes spread throughout Western Europe over several days, people observed hazy skies from southern England, where sunrises and sunsets took on an eerie glow, to the Alps in Switzerland and Italy, where a dust layer encroached on the Matterhorn.

 

Not all of the dust remained aloft. Storms encountered some of the dust, causing particles to fall to the ground with rain and coat surfaces with a brownish residue.

A low-pressure system, named Storm Regina by Portugal’s weather service, moved across the Iberian Peninsula and brought so-called blood rain to southern and eastern Spain, along with parts of France and the southern UK in early March, according to news reports.

 

Over the Mediterranean, areas of “dusty cirrus” clouds developed higher in the atmosphere, where dust particles can act as condensation nuclei for ice crystals, according to MeteoSwiss, Switzerland’s Federal Office for Meteorology and Climatology.

Scientists are studying these clouds to better understand their formation and how they affect weather, climate, and even solar power generation.

 

In a new analysis, researchers used NASA’s MERRA-2 (Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2), observations from MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer), and other satellite products to parse the effect of airborne Saharan dust on solar power in Hungary.

They found that photovoltaic performance dropped to 46 percent on high-dust days, compared with 75 percent or more on low-dust days.

They determined the greatest losses occurred because dust enhanced the presence and reflectance of cirrus clouds and reduced the amount of radiation that reached solar panels.

 

Some research suggests more frequent and intense wintertime dust events have affected Europe in recent years.

Researchers have proposed several factors contributing to these outbreaks, including drier-than-normal conditions in northwestern Africa and weather patterns more often driving winds north from the Sahara.

 

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/dust-outbreak-reaches-europe/

Anonymous ID: fdf8ef March 12, 2026, 10:03 a.m. No.24372827   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2854 >>2892 >>2945 >>2980

Webb Spots Details in Nearby Spiral Galaxy

Mar 12, 2026

 

Stars peek through the dusty, winding arms of NGC 5134, a spiral galaxy located 65 million light-years away, in this Feb. 20, 2026, image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

 

Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument collects the mid-infrared light emitted by the warm dust speckled through the galaxy’s clouds, tracing the clumps and strands of dusty gas.

 

The telescope’s Near Infrared Camera records shorter-wavelength near-infrared light, mostly from the stars and star clusters that dot the galaxy’s spiral arms.

 

By using Webb to study the infrared light nearby galaxies like NGC 5134 whose stars and gas can be seen in detail, astronomers can apply their knowledge to galaxies too distant to be observed so closely — like those that are scattered in the background of this image, barely more than points of light.

 

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/webb-spots-details-in-nearby-spiral-galaxy/

https://esawebb.org/images/potm2602a/

Anonymous ID: fdf8ef March 12, 2026, 10:06 a.m. No.24372837   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2854 >>2892 >>2945 >>2980

NASA Marshall Lunar, Meteor Observatory Marks 20 Years of Discovery

March 12, 2026 11:55AM

 

For a fraction of a second, a tiny rock traveling through space can strike the lunar surface or streak across the sky producing a brief burst of light.

With clear skies and the right technology, these bursts can be observed from Earth. For 20 years, a stargazing outpost at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, has been quietly scanning the sky, watching for these flashes.

This is the Automated Lunar and Meteor Observatory, better known as the ALaMO.

 

The observatory saw its “first light” on March 12, 2006, beginning two decades of observations supporting NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office in tracking meteors and monitoring impacts on the Moon.

These observations help researchers better understand the hazards spacecraft and astronauts may encounter beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

The ALaMO includes two domes, a 15-meter (50-foot) observation tower with a roll-off roof, and an operations center that enables coordinated observations of meteors and lunar impacts.

 

Watching the Moon for Impact Flashes

Just months after beginning operations, the ALaMO recorded its first lunar impact flash on May 2, 2006. Since then, NASA Marshall astronomers have observed more than 400 impacts on the lunar surface.

One of the observatory’s most notable observations occurred on March 17, 2013, when the ALaMO detected a bright flash caused by a bowling ball-sized meteoroid striking the Moon.

Follow-up imagery from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter later confirmed a newly formed crater roughly 60 feet wide, making this the first time the formation of a lunar impact crater was directly observed.

 

Tracking Fireballs Across Earth’s Sky

The ALaMO also plays an important role in studying meteors closer to Earth. In 2008, the first all-sky camera installed at the observatory helped launch the NASA All Sky Fireball Network.

The network includes 15 cameras across the United States that capture bright meteors streaking across the night sky.

 

In 2025, the ALaMO underwent a major refit, installing four new cameras that are part of the Global Meteor Network.

The worldwide network includes roughly 1,300 cameras that allow scientists to study meteoroids using observations collected across the globe rather than relying only on local skies and weather conditions.

Occasionally, the cameras also record unexpected nighttime visitors passing in front of the lenses, from owls and frogs to spiders and snails! Check out our best shots.

 

Contributing to Asteroid Research

In addition to fireball monitoring, the observatory contributes to asteroid research. The ALaMO became certified by the Minor Planet Center in 2007, supporting observations of asteroids and comets.

Between 2009 and 2014, the observatory’s 0.5-meter telescope contributed to several asteroid occultation campaigns.

These events occur when an asteroid passes in front of a celestial body, briefly blocking its light. By measuring how long the light is obscured, scientists can determine the asteroid’s size and shape.

One such observation helped researchers determine the shape of the unique metal-rich asteroid Psyche, which NASA will be further studying through a mission of the same name.

 

Looking to a Bright Future

Twenty years after first light, the ALaMO continues helping scientists better understand the dynamic environment of space, from meteors streaking through Earth’s atmosphere to impacts shaping the surface of the Moon.

As NASA prepares to return humanity to the Moon, and eventually journey onward to Mars, the observatory’s work remains an important part of understanding the cosmic neighborhood future astronauts will travel through.

 

Watch the skies with us! Live views from the ALaMO and NASA All Sky Fireball Network are available at https://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/.

 

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/watch-the-skies/2026/03/12/nasa-marshall-lunar-meteor-observatory-marks-20-years-of-discovery/

Anonymous ID: fdf8ef March 12, 2026, 10:16 a.m. No.24372867   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2872 >>2881 >>2892 >>2903 >>2939 >>2945 >>2980

Trump’s New NASA Boss Says He’s ‘Gonna Build’ a Base on the Moon

Mar 12th, 2026, 10:52 am

 

President Donald Trump’s new administrator of NASA, Jared Isaacman, told Fox Business on Thursday that he intended to build a base on the moon in the coming years.

“My first day on the job, I am in the Oval Office as President Trump signs America’s space policy, America for superiority in space,” Isaacman told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Mornings with Maria.

“Now, my responsibility is on the, again, the civil peaceful side to it. What are we doing about it? We’re returning to the moon. We’re returning to the moon and we’re going to stay. We’re gonna build a lunar base.”

 

He continued, “And next up is Artemis II, which is America’s moon rocket, it’s right behind me, 8.8 million pounds of thrust, we’re gonna send four astronauts around the moon in a matter of weeks, safely back to Earth, and then we’re gonna set up for missions every year, again in ’27 until ’28, when we land on moon, and again, this time to stay.

“We’re doing the other things. We’re going nuclear power on propulsion in space so some day you can see American astronauts plant stars and stripes on Mars,” Isaacman went on.

 

“So this is kind of our role that we fulfil here at NASA. We’re pioneering, ensuring American leadership in the high ground of space. Then you’ve got Space Force.

They’re the ones that are standing out in the hill. They’re looking out for everyone here on Earth, and then you’ve got looking out farther into space as NASA kind of leads the way.”

 

Isaacman, an ally of billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, took over as administrator of NASA in December.

While President Donald Trump had initially nominated Isaacman to serve as NASA administrator back in December 2024, he withdrew the nomination in May 2025 following his explosive public feud with Musk before renominating him in November of that same year.

 

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trumps-new-nasa-boss-says-hes-gonna-build-a-base-on-the-moon/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-nasa-boss-says-gonna-145221636.html

https://x.com/MariaBartiromo/status/2032072465745100862

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv1qHE0zuJL-EqaXwwo6Le34uycJnNCsB

Anonymous ID: fdf8ef March 12, 2026, 10:23 a.m. No.24372890   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2891 >>2892 >>2945 >>2980

https://fireflyspace.com/news/firefly-aerospace-successfully-launches-alpha-flight-7/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4UXqDhfEbw

 

Firefly Aerospace Successfully Launches Alpha Flight 7

March 11, 2026

 

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif, March 11, 2026 – Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY), a market leading space and defense technology company, today announced the successful launch of its Alpha Flight 7 Stairway to Seven mission.

Alpha lifted off from Firefly’s Space Launch Complex 2 at the Vandenberg Space Force Base at 5:50 pm PDT on March 11 before completing an orbital insertion and delivering a demonstrator payload for Lockheed Martin.

 

Firefly’s Alpha rocket also performed a stage two engine relight and validated key Alpha Block II upgrades, including a new in-house avionics suite and enhanced thermal protection system, ahead of the full Block II configuration upgrade planned for Flight 8.

“Alpha Flight 7 was flawlessly executed with all mission requirements completed, further proving the resiliency, innovation, and passion of the Firefly team,” said Jason Kim, CEO of Firefly Aerospace.

“Over the last several months, we took a hard look at our processes across engineering, production, test, integration, and operations and invested the time required to make a series of improvements to ensure a higher level of quality and reliability in every Alpha we deliver and launch as we move to our Block II upgrade.”

 

The Firefly team is now working to complete the final milestones for Alpha Flight 8 that is set to launch the full Block II configuration upgrade designed to enhance reliability and manufacturability across the vehicle.

The upgrades include a 7-foot increase to Alpha’s length, consolidated batteries and avionics built in house, improved thermal protection system, and stronger carbon composite structures built with automated machinery.

 

“Flight 7 served as a critical opportunity to validate Alpha’s performance ahead of our Block II upgrade, and this team knocked it out of the park,” said Adam Oakes, Vice President of Launch at Firefly Aerospace.

“I’m incredibly proud of the Firefly team for continuing to define perseverance. We have full confidence in our Alpha rocket, and we’re committed to continuous improvement as we roll out Block II.

We want to thank Space Launch Delta 30 and our customers for their ongoing collaboration and support.”

 

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Anonymous ID: fdf8ef March 12, 2026, 10:24 a.m. No.24372891   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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About Firefly Aerospace

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables government and commercial customers to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime.

As the partner of choice for responsive space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with approximately 24-hour notice. Firefly is also the only company to achieve a fully successful landing on the Moon.

Established in 2017, Firefly’s engineering, manufacturing, and test facilities are co-located in central Texas to enable rapid innovation.

The company’s small- to medium-lift launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles are built with common flight-proven technologies to enable speed, reliability, and cost efficiencies for each mission from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond.

For more information, visit www.fireflyspace.com.

 

Forward-Looking Statement

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” including, but not limited to, statements regarding the expectations regarding Alpha Flight 8, the benefits and expectations of the Alpha Block II upgrade and other statements regarding Firefly’s future expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, financial conditions, assumptions, future events, or performance that are not historical facts.

In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements because they contain words such as “set,” “prepare,” “may,” “will,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “could,” “would,” “intends,” and “believes.”

There may also be negative words or other similar terms or expressions that concern our expectations, strategy, plans, or intentions. Not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words.

 

The inclusion of forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a representation that such plans, estimates, or expectations will be achieved.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained herein, which speak only as of the date hereof.

These statements are based on management’s current expectations, assumptions, and beliefs concerning future developments, which are inherently subject to uncertainties, risks, and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict.

We cannot assure you that the events reflected in the forward-looking statements will occur; actual events could differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements.

 

In addition to the risks and uncertainties of our ordinary business operations and conditions in the general economy and markets in which we compete, the forward-looking statements in this press release are subject to the risks, uncertainties, and other factors disclosed in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2025, which risks, uncertainties, and other factors could cause actual events to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements.

Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date as of which such statement is made, and except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements whether because of new information, future events; etc.

 

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Anonymous ID: fdf8ef March 12, 2026, 10:40 a.m. No.24372953   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2980

Dr. STONE Anime Collaborates With JAXA’s Tsukuba Space Center

12 March 2026

 

The TV anime Dr. STONE is collaborating with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) at the Tsukuba Space Center. A brand-new collaboration visual created specifically for the project has been released.

 

From April 4 to August 31, a special collaboration event will also take place at the Space Dome, the exhibition hall inside the Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture.

 

Special displays related to the anime will be set up throughout the Space Dome. More details about the event will be announced at a later date.

 

The third cour of the final season of the TV anime Dr. STONE: SCIENCE FUTURE will begin streaming on Crunchyroll starting April 2.

 

Collaboration Visual:

The season 1,2 and 3 and the RYUSUI special episode of Dr. STONE are streaming on Crunchyroll, who describes the plot of the series:

 

Several thousand years after a mysterious phenomenon that turns all of humanity to stone, the extraordinarily intelligent, science-driven boy, Senku Ishigami, awakens.

 

Facing a world of stone and the total collapse of civilization, Senku makes up his mind to use science to rebuild the world. Starting with his super strong childhood friend Taiju Oki, who awakened at the same time, they will begin to rebuild civilization from nothing…

 

Depicting two million years of scientific history from the Stone Age to present day, the unprecedented crafting adventure story is about to begin!

 

https://animetv-jp.net/news/dr-stone-anime-collaborates-with-jaxas-tsukuba-space-center/