Italy’s Argotec plans to scale Florida satellite facility to meet rising US demand
Friday, 03 April 2026 16:33
Italy’s Argotec has officially opened its first U.S.
Artemis II's moon-bound astronauts capture Earth's brilliant blue beauty as they leave it behind
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White House again proposes steep NASA budget cuts
Friday, 03 April 2026 14:15
For the second consecutive year, the White House is proposing a major budget cut for NASA that would significantly impact the agency’s science programs and the International Space Station.
Week in images: 30 March - 03 April 2026
Friday, 03 April 2026 12:10
Week in images: 30 March - 03 April 2026
Discover our week through the lens
SpaceX and Amazon spar over satellite deployments
Friday, 03 April 2026 10:41
Amazon says it will revise deployment plans for its broadband satellite constellation while denying claims from SpaceX that its current approach represents a space safety risk.
How the Soviet Buran shuttle flew once, landed itself perfectly, and was abandoned — the complete engineering and political history of a spacecraft that outlived its empire
Friday, 03 April 2026 10:12
The Soviet Buran shuttle completed a flawless autonomous orbital flight and landing in 1988, demonstrating capabilities the American shuttle never possessed — then was abandoned when its empire collapsed and ultimately destroyed by a collapsing hangar roof.
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Europe’s strategic autonomy in space will define its role in the ‘second space age’
Friday, 03 April 2026 10:00
Europe’s future in space really boils down to one question: can it stay ahead without relying on technology made somewhere else? As we step into what experts call the “second space age,” strategic autonomy is suddenly front and center for the European Union.
The complete story of Voyager’s Golden Record: how a committee of scientists tried to explain humanity to the universe in 1977 and what their choices reveal about us
Friday, 03 April 2026 09:42
In 1977, Carl Sagan's committee had six weeks to explain humanity to the universe. The Golden Record they created — now 15 billion miles from Earth — reveals as much about the politics and aspirations of its makers as it does about the species they tried to represent.
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Fortastra’s Talent Raid Signals a New Phase in the Pentagon’s Push for Space Defense Startups
Friday, 03 April 2026 09:12
When senior executives at Relativity Space, Hermeus, Divergent Technologies, and Astrion decide to leave their positions simultaneously for the same seed-stage startup, it tells you something about how aerospace insiders are reading the market. Fortastra, a company founded in 2025 to build maneuverable spacecraft for on-orbit security, has assembled a C-suite drawn from companies that […]
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There’s a kind of confidence that only develops after you’ve been publicly wrong about something you cared about deeply and chose to stay in the room anyway
Friday, 03 April 2026 08:42
The most reliable form of confidence doesn't come from an unbroken track record of success. It develops after you've been publicly wrong about something that mattered and chose to stay engaged with the people who witnessed it.
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The reason some people can’t accept compliments has nothing to do with humility. It’s that they built their identity around effort, not arrival.
Friday, 03 April 2026 08:12
The inability to accept compliments isn't about humility — it's what happens when someone builds their entire identity around striving and has no framework for what comes after arrival.
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Phantom Space’s TMT Acquisition Reveals the Unsexy Problem at the Heart of Orbital Computing
Friday, 03 April 2026 07:42
Phantom Space reportedly acquired thermal management hardware provider TMT in early April, the latest move in the Tucson-based company’s effort to build a vertically integrated space infrastructure business capable of computing in orbit. The deal directly addresses one of the hardest engineering problems facing anyone who wants to run high-performance computing workloads above the atmosphere: […]
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Artemis II astronauts rocket toward the moon after spending a day around Earth
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The Pentagon’s Satellite Ambitions Have a Supply Chain Problem That Four Companies Can’t Solve Fast Enough
Friday, 03 April 2026 07:12
The Pentagon’s ambitious plan to blanket low Earth orbit with a mesh network of interconnected military satellites has run into a stubborn industrial reality: there aren’t enough optical communication terminals to go around. The Space Development Agency, which is building the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, has acknowledged that its supply chain for laser crosslink hardware […]
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