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A spent Falcon 9 stage used to launch a pair of commercial lunar landers is projected to impact the moon Aug.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched the third and final terabit-class ViaSat-3 broadband satellite toward geostationary orbit April 29, putting Viasat on course to finish a constellation more than a decade in the making.

Psychology says people who feel guilty resting on a Saturday weren't raised to relax, they were raised to earn the right to exist by being useful, and the bill never quite got marked paid

The Saturday guilt isn't laziness or workaholism — it's the residue of a childhood economy where worth was earned through usefulness. Here's what the psychology research actually shows about why rest feels dangerous, and what changes when the pattern gets named.

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When the Wire Beats the Wave: How Tethered Drones Defeat Modern Air Defence Architecture

A spool of fibre optic cable has done what years of attrition could not: it has exposed a structural blind spot in one of the most heavily instrumented air defence networks on Earth. Hezbollah’s deployment of wire-guided first-person view drones across southern Lebanon has forced Israeli ground troops to defend themselves with assault rifles and […]

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People who hold doors open and wait three extra seconds for strangers aren't just polite, they remember exactly how it felt to be the one rushing toward a closing door nobody held

The reflex to wait at a doorway isn't politeness — it's memory. The people who reliably hold doors for strangers are usually the ones who remember exactly how it felt to be the one rushing toward a closing door nobody held.

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Gallery forests of the Angola–DRC borderlands

To mark the first anniversary of the European Space Agency’s Biomass satellite, we present a selection of striking images captured over the past 12 months, revealing Earth’s forests, and much more, in new detail. In just one year, this pioneering mission has begun transforming our understanding of forest dynamics and advancing how scientists monitor the critical role forests play in regulating the global carbon cycle.

BAE to demonstrate inter-satellite Link-182 radios for Golden Dome missile defense architecture

Psychology says adults who apologize for things that weren't their fault aren't insecure, they grew up in homes where taking the blame was the fastest way to make the tension stop

The reflex to apologize for things outside your control isn't insecurity or politeness. It's a survival strategy from a household where absorbing the blame was the cheapest way to make the tension stop.

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Appropriators reject NASA budget proposal

Wednesday, 29 April 2026 10:00
Senate Approps NASA hearing

House and Senate appropriators criticized a NASA budget proposal for fiscal year 2027 that includes significant cuts, suggesting they may instead use last year’s spending bill as a guide.

The complete story of New Horizons: how a thousand-day flyby of Pluto rewrote planetary science and what its extended mission is still teaching us

Eleven years after launch and nearly a thousand days past its Pluto encounter, New Horizons is still transmitting from beyond 60 AU. A look at what the mission found, what its extended phase is still teaching us, and why the team behind it matters as much as the spacecraft.

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