The White House recently released a formal policy directing NASA, the Pentagon, and the Department of Energy to jointly develop nuclear power systems for space, with orbital reactor launches reportedly targeted for the late 2020s and a lunar surface variant by 2030. The directive amounts to a significant federal commitment to space nuclear technology, and […]

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Achievement devalues itself the moment it becomes fact. For ambitious people, reaching a goal doesn't just end the pursuit — it collapses the identity structure that was built around the striving.

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The European Space Agency has picked Canadian small satellite operator Kepler Communications to lead a hosted payload mission to test terminal interoperability for HydRON, ESA’s flagship optical relay network program.

COLORADO SPRINGS – Blue Origin moved a step closer to launching New Glenn rockets from Vandenberg Space Force Base with a U.S.

COLORADO SPRINGS – The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency responsible for U.S. spy satellites, seeks partners to accelerate its adoption of state-of-the-art intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.

SES announced an agreement with Boeing April 14 to start integrating multi-orbit hardware during aircraft production, marking a key step away from retrofit installations to incorporate LEO broadband.

The Philippines has accused Chinese fishermen of deliberately dumping cyanide into waters around Second Thomas Shoal, calling it an act of environmental sabotage designed to starve Filipino troops stationed on a rusting warship at the contested atoll. The charge, backed by what Philippine officials describe as laboratory results from seized bottles, opens a strange and […]

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NASA’s science program is being hollowed out, and the agency’s leadership appears content to let it happen. What is underway is not a budget dispute or a temporary pivot toward fiscal restraint. It is a structural abandonment of the approach that produced NASA’s most significant discoveries over six decades — the dedicated science mission, designed […]

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People who keep starting over aren't scattered or lost — they have an unusually honest relationship with outgrowing things, reading the signals of misalignment that most people suppress until the slow drift becomes a crisis.

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