Beijing’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi traveled to Pyongyang in early April not because China wants closer ties with North Korea, but because Xi Jinping cannot afford a North Korean provocation in the weeks before he sits across from Donald Trump. That single calculation — managing the summit table — is the spine of this visit. […]

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The White House has proposed cutting NASA’s Science Mission Directorate by roughly half in a fiscal year 2027 budget request that space policy experts describe as a near-verbatim repeat of a plan Congress already rejected months ago. This is the second consecutive year the administration has submitted essentially the same devastating science cuts, and the […]

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Solitude and loneliness look identical from the outside. The variable that separates them is choice, and most people don't notice the moment they stop choosing the silence that once restored them.

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Amazon announced a deal to acquire satellite operator Globalstar, a move that instantly vaults the company into the direct-to-device connectivity market and sets up a collision course with SpaceX’s Starlink. It’s a classic Amazon play: buy what you can’t build fast enough. But the company it’s trying to catch has spent five years proving that […]

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People who choose dangerous frontiers aren't miscalculating risk — they're running a different equation, one where the greatest danger isn't dying early but arriving at the end having never tested what they were capable of.

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Oxford, UK – Archangel Lightworks announces the successful close of an oversubscribed $13.5m Series A funding round to accelerate the commercialisation of its deployable optical ground station, the TERRA-M.

Amazon announced plans April 14 to buy satellite operator Globalstar in a deal valued at about $10.8 billion, marking its entry into the emerging market for providing connectivity directly to mobile phones and other cellular devices.