Morocco signs the Artemis Accords
Thursday, 30 April 2026 10:43
Morocco signed the Artemis Accords April 29, becoming the third country to do so in the last 10 days.
The great parachute bake-out
Thursday, 30 April 2026 10:30
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The great parachute bake-out Cosmoleap secures $73 million for reusable rocket with tower catch recovery
Thursday, 30 April 2026 09:57
Chinese launch startup Cosmoleap has secured significant funding for its reusable rocket plans as it works towards a debut launch in 2027.
Baking a parachute for Mars
Thursday, 30 April 2026 08:29
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Watch ESA’s Mars chief engineer Albert Haldemann explain the sterilisation process of one of the parachutes of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission and why it matters.
Carefully wrapped inside a donut-shaped bag is a 35-m diameter parachute, about to be baked inside a specialised dry-heat steriliser oven. The parachute needs to be at least 10 000 times cleaner than your smartphone.
To get rid of any microbes it might have picked up during its time on Earth, the parachute was heated up in a specialised oven at the European Space Agency’s Life Support and Physical Sciences Laboratory at ESTEC, the agency’s technical centre in the Netherlands. All air inside the cleanroom continuously passes through a two-stage
Trump says US has 'a shot' at crewed Moon landing before presidency ends
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Starry spiral in a familiar neighbourhood
Thursday, 30 April 2026 07:00
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Starry spiral in a familiar neighbourhood What would happen without satellite communications?
Thursday, 30 April 2026 06:22
The sudden loss of satellite communications would lead to widespread disruption, affecting vital services such as air travel, maritime logistics and emergency response with an estimated economic impact of up to €20 billion. To highlight the economic importance of satellite-enabled connectivity, London Economics prepared a report for the European Space Agency (ESA), examining the effects of a hypothetical week-long outage of satellite communications across ESA Member States and Canada.
Psychology says people who have spent a lifetime sacrificing their own happiness for others aren’t selfless — they’re running a childhood program that taught them love was something you earned by making yourself smaller, and the hardest part is that it wo
Thursday, 30 April 2026 03:05
Have you ever looked around at the people in your life who seem to give endlessly, never asking for anything in return, and wondered how they do it? I used to think these people were saints. The friend who drops everything to help others move apartments. The colleague who stays late to finish everyone else’s […]
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Psychology says the 60s is the decade in which most women have the rare opportunity to become genuinely classy — because almost every external structure that previously defined them (motherhood, partnership, career, beauty as currency) is loosening or end
Thursday, 30 April 2026 02:39
Last week, I found myself standing in my kitchen at 5:30 AM, watching steam rise from my tea, when it struck me that I no longer apologize for taking this hour of morning silence. At 70, this simple act of claiming space for myself feels revolutionary. Not because it’s dramatic or defiant, but because it […]
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Psychology says women who need a glass of wine to unwind at the end of the day aren’t weak or dependent — they’ve never been taught the difference between actually decompressing and just chemically interrupting the stress they never learned to process any
Thursday, 30 April 2026 01:52
Picture this: You’ve just finished another demanding day, and as you kick off your shoes, your hand automatically reaches for that evening comfort. The guilt creeps in before you even indulge. Society whispers that you should be stronger, that needing external comfort makes you dependent, maybe even weak. But what if I told you that […]
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Psychology says people who always keep their phone on silent aren’t antisocial — they’ve quietly decided that their own mental state matters more than other people’s expectation of immediate access, and that decision changes every relationship they have
Thursday, 30 April 2026 01:39
When was the last time you actually heard your phone ring? If you’re like me, it’s been a while. Not because no one’s calling, but because somewhere along the way, you made a choice. A quiet, deliberate choice that says your peace of mind matters more than being instantly available to everyone, all the time. […]
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Psychology says people who keep old voicemails from people who have died aren’t grieving wrong, they’re keeping a small door open to a voice the world has otherwise agreed to stop using
Thursday, 30 April 2026 00:29
Saved voicemails from people who have died aren't a sign of grief gone wrong. They're a recognized form of continuing bonds — a small, private rebuttal to the secondary erasure that follows every death.
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Canadian Space Agency cancels Spire satellite contract
Wednesday, 29 April 2026 23:43
The Canadian Space Agency has canceled a contract it awarded last year to Spire Global to construct a fleet of wildfire-monitoring smallsats.
Why hasn’t the universe produced more civilizations? The answer might be that Earth is freakishly lucky
Wednesday, 29 April 2026 22:59
I published an article recently on Space Daily arguing that we will probably find alien life in the next 50 years. I still think the case for that is strong. But there is a competing argument I have not given enough credit, and it deserves its own honest hearing. It is the possibility that Earth […]
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Psychology says the parent who keeps every drawing, every report card, and every handprint isn’t sentimental, they’re trying to prove to themselves that the years actually happened, because most days felt like they were happening to someone else
Wednesday, 29 April 2026 22:07
The parent who keeps every drawing and report card isn't just sentimental. They're often building physical evidence that the blurred years of caregiving actually happened to them, and that they were truly present for them.
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