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Dark matter-hunting satellite ARRAKIHS to launch in 2030. Here's how it will work (www.space.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I reread the satellite name several times to make sure it wasn’t Arrakis

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

It's actually a clever backronym for "Analysis of Resolved Remnants of Accreted galaxies as a Key Instrument for Halo Surveys" but yeah they defintely chose those words to match the Dune reference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The name is directly based on that though.