Four astronauts from the United States and Canada became the humans to travel the furthest from the Earth April 6 as they went around the moon on the Artemis 2 mission.

The U.S. military wants to build satellites fast enough to replace them in a war. The supply chain that makes that possible is riddled with blind spots, single points of failure, and small specialized companies that Pentagon planners can barely see. That tension between ambition and industrial reality is now commanding attention from military leaders, […]

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India’s Home Minister Amit Shah reportedly told parliament on March 30 that the country had largely suppressed the Maoist insurgency, declaring the effective end of a conflict that had convulsed parts of the subcontinent for nearly six decades. The announcement came just hours before the government’s self-imposed March 31, 2026, deadline, a target Shah had […]

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Spanish startup FOSSA Systems is pushing into Japan’s defense market after securing a local partner to expand its reach, building on a shift beyond tiny picosatellites used to connect low-power monitoring devices toward more capable spacecraft for broader government applications.

Ukraine appears to have struck the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk overnight on Sunday, reportedly targeting Russia’s largest oil export terminal in what would represent a sharp escalation of Kyiv’s campaign to choke the revenue streams funding Moscow’s war machine. Reports suggest the attack hit the Sheskharis oil terminal and possibly struck the Russian warship […]

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Seagate Space Corporation and Firefly Aerospace have announced a memorandum of understanding to develop an offshore launch platform for Firefly’s Alpha rocket, pairing a small launch vehicle that is still proving itself with what would be the first purpose-built floating spaceport ever certified by a major maritime authority. The agreement centers on integrating Firefly’s liquid-fueled […]

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Early in my career at SpaceX, I was the only person dedicated to training the mission control team for Dragon.

Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon has reportedly killed more than 1,450 people and forced roughly 1.2 million from their homes since early March 2026, according to Lebanese authorities cited by Al Jazeera. The displaced population represents nearly 22 percent of Lebanon’s total population. That is not a refugee crisis. That is a country losing the […]

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman spent his weekend on national television arguing that $25.2 billion is enough money to get Americans back on the Moon, even as the budget proposal he was defending would slash the agency’s science portfolio by nearly 44% and put dozens of missions on the chopping block. The fiscal year 2027 budget […]

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