Russia has warned European governments of potential escalation across the continent after Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign reportedly inflicted severe damage on Russian oil and gas infrastructure, with claims of destroyed export terminals, refineries and drilling platforms cutting into export revenues. The threat, issued by the Russian Defence Ministry, follows reports of a wave of European […]

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China’s Shenzhou-21 astronauts conducted an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Thursday, installing debris-protection hardware and inspecting the orbital outpost.

The astronauts who flew around the moon on Artemis 2 said they were confident the Orion spacecraft is ready to support future missions.

As the war in Gaza grinds past its second year, diplomatic efforts have repeatedly produced ceasefire frameworks that fail to translate into protection for civilians on the ground. The January 2025 truce — brokered with heavy US and Qatari involvement — offered the most concrete hope yet. But within weeks of its implementation, reports of […]

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Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary and President To Lam wrapped a four-day state visit to China that put high-speed rail, not South China Sea tensions, at the center of the bilateral agenda. The trip produced signed cooperation deals on railways, public security, technology, and inter-party exchanges, and it set the terms under which Chinese engineering […]

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A revised draft of a proposed European Union space regulation is a step backward, creating uncertainty about how the law would be applied outside the EU, critics argue.

The mobile industry’s most ambitious plan to end cellular dead zones is colliding with an unglamorous obstacle: its own fragmentation. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, direct-to-device satellite services dominated the show floor, with contract announcements between constellation operators and mobile network operators arriving almost daily. Yet behind the momentum, a warning is hardening into […]

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At the recent Mobile World Conference 2026 in Barcelona, the strong presence of Direct-to-Device (D2D) satellite services and the avalanche of press releases related to contracts signed between D2D satellite service providers and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) gave the impression that large scale implementation of D2D services by MNOs is imminent.

Taiwan’s space agency chief used the Space Symposium stage in Colorado Springs this week to pitch something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago: a multinational low-Earth orbit broadband constellation built by a coalition of democracies, explicitly designed to reduce dependence on SpaceX’s Starlink. The proposal, floated by Taiwan Space Agency Director General Jong-Shinn […]

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China has conducted rendezvous and proximity operations tests involving a prototype cargo spacecraft and a satellite in a step towards low-cost orbital infrastructure.