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 mobile industry’s most ambitious plan to end cellular dead zones is colliding with an unglamorous obstacle: its own fragmentation. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, direct-to-device satellite services dominated the show floor, with contract announcements between constellation operators and mobile network operators arriving almost daily. Yet behind the momentum, a warning is hardening into […]

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On October 15, 1997, a Titan IVB rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying a spacecraft the size of a school bus on a trajectory that would take seven years to reach its destin

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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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Climate disinformation in the Philippines has become an operational weapon, used to justify military strikes on Indigenous communities resisting mining and energy projects. That is the central argument of recent analysis, which traces how narratives branding extractive projects as green solutions and Indigenous resistance as terrorism have converged into a system that clears land through […]

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At the recent Mobile World Conference 2026 in Barcelona, the strong presence of Direct-to-Device (D2D) satellite services and the avalanche of press releases related to contracts signed between D2D satellite service providers and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) gave the impression that large scale implementation of D2D services by MNOs is imminent.

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

Week in images: 13-17 April 2026

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As the war in Gaza grinds past its second year, diplomatic efforts have repeatedly produced ceasefire frameworks that fail to translate into protection for civilians on the ground. The January 2025 truce — brokered with heavy US and Qatari involvement — offered the most concrete hope yet. But within weeks of its implementation, reports of […]

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