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.

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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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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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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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 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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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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Controlling behavior in relationships doesn't always look like ultimatums or rage. Sometimes it looks like devotion — attentiveness that becomes monitoring, concern that becomes a veto over your choices, and loyalty that requires you to stay exactly who you were when the relationship began.

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