In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Alyssa Goessler on what’s driving the optimism in the space economy.

A 14-year-old boy named Qasim wakes at 7am in Sanaa, grabs a white sack, and spends his morning collecting plastic bottles. Qasim told Al Jazeera that a full sack earns him enough to help feed his six-member family. His 12-year-old brother Asem takes the afternoon shift. Neither attends school anymore. Qasim dropped out in the […]

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Now that the Artemis 2 mission has been successfully completed, it’s worth taking a look at where NASA stands on the role of humans in exploring space and what its path forward should be.

Beijing is not simply preparing for a summit. It is constructing something more deliberate: a multi-front leverage architecture — a coordinated system of diplomatic, economic, and security pressures, synchronized across three continents, designed to ensure that when President Donald Trump arrives in China next month, the terms of negotiation have already been shaped in Beijing’s […]

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For the first time, a branch of the U.S. military has publicly declared that its current force cannot survive the fight it expects to face — and has laid out, in 172 pages of granular detail, exactly what it intends to build instead. Gen. Chance Saltzman, the U.S. Space Force’s Chief of Space Operations, has […]

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Aethero is preparing to deploy its most powerful computing payload yet this fall, aiming to bring data center-style processing to orbit and expand the scale of AI workloads that can be handled in space.

In 1977, Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan had six weeks to distill all of human civilization onto a gold-plated record launched into interstellar space. The choices they made — what to include, what to leave out, and the hidden love story encoded in the disc — reveal more about how humanity sees itself than any alien might ever learn from it.

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SpaceX reportedly completed a full-duration static fire test of its Starship Version 3 upper stage in mid-April, giving the company a signal that the upgraded megarocket may be ready for a debut launch targeted for early or mid-May. The test, conducted at the company’s facilities in Texas, marks a critical checkpoint for a vehicle that […]

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The fruit of years of U.S. counter-narcotics policy in the Eastern Pacific is coming under renewed scrutiny — and the legal questions surrounding the use of military force against suspected drug trafficking vessels are not going away. For decades, U.S. Southern Command, the Coast Guard, and allied naval forces have conducted interdiction operations targeting drug-laden […]

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