Artemis astronauts pass behind moon, expected communications cut starts
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Laughter, tears: Historic day for astronaut Jenni Gibbons in Houston
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A Single Chokepoint Failure Reveals the Fragile Architecture of Africa’s Energy Supply Chain

The reported closure of the Strait of Hormuz appears to have severed a lifeline that African nations long treated as permanent. With the Iran conflict allegedly choking off the narrow waterway through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil passes, countries across the continent may now be confronting an energy crisis that exposes decades […]
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Doubling ESA’s deep space capabilities at New Norcia with deep space antenna 4
ESA’s newest deep space antenna, DSA 4 (also called NNO-3), is now fully online – representing a powerful new addition that strengthens the Agency’s reach across the Solar System and boosts the capacity and resilience of its global Estrack network for communicating with spacecraft in deep space.
Starfish Space raises more than $100 million

Starfish Space has raised more than $100 million to scale up production of its satellite servicing spacecraft.
NASA’s new moon base project requires operational technology systems in space, but they are vulnerable.

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New Artemis II 'Earthset' shot revisits Apollo 8's iconic 'Earthrise,' 57 years on
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The EU’s Space Coalition Doesn’t Look Like NATO — And That’s the Point

The European Union has committed €150 billion in defense financing — not announced, not pledged, but allocated through a loan facility that member states are already drawing down. That number, channeled through the Security Action for Europe regulation, represents the financial backbone of something genuinely new in geopolitical architecture: a coalition designed not to deter […]
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Vietnam’s Power Consolidation: What To Lam’s Dual Role Means for Hanoi’s Institutional Balance

Vietnam’s National Assembly unanimously elected Communist Party Secretary General To Lam as state president, placing the country’s two most powerful offices in the hands of a single leader for the first time in decades and marking a clean break from Vietnam’s tradition of collective rule. National Assembly delegates voted in favor, confirming a nomination that […]
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