'Chills': Artemis astronauts say lunar flyby still washing over them
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Lockheed Martin wins $105 million contract for GPS ground control system as OCX winds down
Thursday, 09 April 2026 09:26
The contract supports next-generation GPS IIIF satellites through 2030
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Artemis crew's families enthralled by messages from space
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The complete story of Voyager’s interstellar mission: how two spacecraft built in the 1970s are still rewriting what we know about the edge of the solar system
Thursday, 09 April 2026 09:08
In November 2026, Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth, a milestone that highlights both the astonishing endurance of 1970s engineering and the vast distances that still separate humanity from true interstellar travel.
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Vantor to expand imaging satellite fleet, adding smallsats to increase revisit rates
Thursday, 09 April 2026 09:00
The new architecture combines high resolution with rapid revisit
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Apex Satellite’s Big Pivot: Why a Small-Sat Company Is Suddenly Building for the Pentagon and Orbital Data Centers
Thursday, 09 April 2026 08:38
Apex Satellite announced plans to build two new, significantly larger spacecraft platforms aimed at orbital data centers and the Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defense architecture, a sharp reversal from the company’s position less than a year ago when CEO Ian Cinnamon previously expressed that the company saw limited market demand for larger spacecraft platforms. The […]
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Artemis II astronauts follow Apollo tradition of naming lunar features after loved ones
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Suppressing anger doesn’t make you calm. It makes you unreadable.
Thursday, 09 April 2026 08:08
Research consistently shows that suppressing anger doesn't reduce the emotion — it amplifies it while creating inauthenticity, relationship damage, and health consequences that the calm exterior was supposed to prevent.
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Apex to develop larger satellites for missile defense, space-based computing
Thursday, 09 April 2026 08:00
‘Comet Mini’ and ‘Comet XL’ target energy-intensive missions
Maple syrup or nutella? PM Carney calls Canadian Artemis astronaut
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Houston, we have a problem ... with the toilet
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Three Life Sentences, Zero Terrorism Convictions: The Paradox at the Heart of India’s Kashmir Crackdown
Thursday, 09 April 2026 07:09
A 64-year-old Kashmiri woman who never picked up a weapon has been sentenced to die in prison. In March, a special National Investigation Agency court in New Delhi handed Aasiya Andrabi three concurrent life sentences, making her among the first Kashmiri women jailed for participation in the self-determination movement to receive such a punishment. The […]
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LeoLabs’ Delta Platform Signals a Turning Point: Space Situational Awareness Is Now a Military Product
Thursday, 09 April 2026 06:39
LeoLabs has moved beyond tracking space junk. The California-based radar company has developed Delta, a threat detection platform reportedly built for military operators who need to know when a satellite is behaving like a weapon rather than a wayward piece of hardware. The announcement signals a commercial space company stepping directly into the military intelligence […]
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The most confident person in the room is rarely the most competent. The research on this is devastating.
Thursday, 09 April 2026 06:09
The Dunning-Kruger effect has become shorthand for incompetent people who don't know they're incompetent. But recent mathematical analysis suggests the famous finding is largely a statistical artifact — and the real problem is that our institutions systematically reward confidence over demonstrated ability.
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Discipline isn’t strength. It’s trained attention.
Thursday, 09 April 2026 05:39
We treat discipline as a character trait — something you either have or lack. But neuroscience increasingly shows that what we call discipline is actually trained attention: a cognitive skill that can be built, depleted, and rebuilt through structured practice.
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