Hungary’s defense and space tech contractor 4iG also announced deals with L3Harris and Apex for defense systems and satellite manufacturing

Here’s the uncomfortable truth about Britain’s Orpheus mission: £5.15 million doesn’t buy you a space surveillance capability. It buys you the right to claim you’re building one. And in the strange economics of military space, that distinction matters far more than the Ministry of Defence would like to admit. Astroscale’s U.K. subsidiary has reportedly cleared […]

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NASA is planning to build a major base on the moon. Before it can figure out how to pour lunar concrete or park rovers at the south pole, it has a more fundamental problem: the agency reportedly lacks mandatory cybersecurity standards for the operational technology that would keep astronauts alive once they get there. That […]

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Astroscale has completed the critical design review for two cubesats slated to launch next year to help the British military monitor space weather and track objects in LEO.

On 6 April 2026, NASA’s Artemis II Mission, powered by ESA’s European Service Module (ESM), brought humans further than ever before. 

But how do future astronauts train to live on the Moon, and what kind of lunar base could they create?

That’s where school students like you can come in!

Hungary is betting several hundred million dollars that it can no longer afford to depend on allies for satellite communications — and that bet, routed through American defense contractors rather than European space agencies, reveals something more important than one small country’s space ambitions. It reveals a fracturing consensus about what European sovereignty actually means, […]

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Two supermassive black holes are locked in a tight orbit around each other in the galaxy Markarian 501, separated by a cosmic hair’s breadth, and they may collide within a century. A research team led by Silke Britzen of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn has announced the first confirmed detection of […]

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The persistent ache that follows an enormous life choice is not evidence of error. It's grief wearing the costume of regret, and the difference between those two experiences determines whether you spend years defending your decision or learning to carry its real weight.

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Thermal protection systems have defined the boundaries of human spaceflight since Mercury, shaping everything from the Shuttle's fatal vulnerabilities to Parker Solar Probe's carbon composite shield surviving 2,000-degree encounters with the Sun. The engineering solutions keep evolving, but the political and budgetary decisions behind them are just as consequential.

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