A Spanish satellite startup that once built spacecraft for under $30,000 is now chasing defense contracts in Tokyo, betting that a rapid transition from tiny experimental satellites to larger, more capable platforms can open doors to government customers hungry for sovereign space capabilities. FOSSA Systems has reportedly partnered with Japanese trading firm Kanematsu and opened […]

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The compulsion to plan everything before enjoying it is often not a personality trait but a nervous system response — the body has learned that unpredictability is where danger lives, and it mobilises accordingly.

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The night sky makes us feel tiny, and instead of panic, many people feel peace. Recent psychological research on awe explains why shrinking your sense of self can lower stress, reduce inflammation, and reconnect you with what actually matters.

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NASA has a plan to build a permanent base on the moon. What it lacks, according to a growing chorus of critics inside the space industry, is the software architecture to actually run one. The agency’s moon base program, described as a multi-billion dollar, three-phase effort to establish sustained human presence at the lunar south […]

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Four astronauts from the United States and Canada became the humans to travel the furthest from the Earth April 6 as they went around the moon on the Artemis 2 mission.

The U.S. military wants to build satellites fast enough to replace them in a war. The supply chain that makes that possible is riddled with blind spots, single points of failure, and small specialized companies that Pentagon planners can barely see. That tension between ambition and industrial reality is now commanding attention from military leaders, […]

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India’s Home Minister Amit Shah reportedly told parliament on March 30 that the country had largely suppressed the Maoist insurgency, declaring the effective end of a conflict that had convulsed parts of the subcontinent for nearly six decades. The announcement came just hours before the government’s self-imposed March 31, 2026, deadline, a target Shah had […]

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Spanish startup FOSSA Systems is pushing into Japan’s defense market after securing a local partner to expand its reach, building on a shift beyond tiny picosatellites used to connect low-power monitoring devices toward more capable spacecraft for broader government applications.

Ukraine appears to have struck the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk overnight on Sunday, reportedly targeting Russia’s largest oil export terminal in what would represent a sharp escalation of Kyiv’s campaign to choke the revenue streams funding Moscow’s war machine. Reports suggest the attack hit the Sheskharis oil terminal and possibly struck the Russian warship […]

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The friendships we form after 35 feel different because they're built on honesty and deliberate choice rather than the shared chaos and forced proximity that powered earlier bonds. That unfamiliarity isn't inferiority — it's a new skill most people were never taught to use.

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