Taiwan’s space agency chief used the Space Symposium stage in Colorado Springs this week to pitch something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago: a multinational low-Earth orbit broadband constellation built by a coalition of democracies, explicitly designed to reduce dependence on SpaceX’s Starlink. The proposal, floated by Taiwan Space Agency Director General Jong-Shinn […]

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China has conducted rendezvous and proximity operations tests involving a prototype cargo spacecraft and a satellite in a step towards low-cost orbital infrastructure.

Reports indicate that SpaceX may launch the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket in late 2028, potentially closing a 25-year chapter of broken partnerships, canceled contracts, and geopolitical rupture that has kept one of planetary science’s most ambitious missions grounded. The announcement, reported by Ars Technica, indicates the rover […]

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A Hyderabad-based startup just closed a roughly $55 million seed round to put a data center in low Earth orbit. TakeMe2Space, founded by SaaS entrepreneur Ronak Kumar Samantray, secured the funding led by Chiratae Ventures with participation from Unicorn India Ventures, Artha Venture Fund and SeaFund, as announced publicly in January. The bet: that the […]

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The person who stays composed while everything collapses is rarely calmer by nature. They've usually learned that panic requires a witness, a safety net, and time they were never given. What the neuroscience reveals about the hidden cost of unshakeability.

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The adults who remember every small kindness with vivid precision aren't sentimental. They grew up in environments where warmth was scarce enough that their nervous systems learned to archive it as signal — and the neuroscience of memory formation explains why the pattern is so durable.

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COLORADO SPRINGS – After announcing a $5 million seed round in January, Indian startup TakeMe2Space seeks to raise $55 million to establish a 50-kilowatt orbital data center.