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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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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Habitual correctors aren't driven by pedantry — they're running a childhood survival program where precision was the only reliable path to emotional safety, and the reflex has long outlived the original danger.

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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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Ambitious people are remarkably good at building things and remarkably bad at looking at what they've built. The psychological cost of never celebrating compounds over decades in ways most high achievers don't recognize until something breaks.

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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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