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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Phantom Space reportedly acquired thermal management hardware provider TMT in early April, the latest move in the Tucson-based company’s effort to build a vertically integrated space infrastructure business capable of computing in orbit. The deal directly addresses one of the hardest engineering problems facing anyone who wants to run high-performance computing workloads above the atmosphere: […]

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The James Webb Space Telescope has pulled back the curtain on a region of our galaxy where massive stars are being born, capturing images of stellar infants that no previous instrument could see. The new observations of W51, one of the Milky Way’s most active star-forming regions, reveal young, high-mass stars still wrapped in the […]

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Six days from now, a spacecraft carrying four instruments will lift off from French Guiana on a mission to photograph something no human has ever seen directly: the collision between the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic shield. The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer, known as SMILE, is a joint effort between the European Space […]

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NASA modified operations of an astrophysics spacecraft in a decaying orbit to buy more time for a mission later this year that will attempt to raise its orbit.