The Direct-to-Device Dream Collides With a Fractured Satellite Reality
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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The strange exhaustion of being the person everyone describes as ‘doing fine’ when you haven’t actually been asked in months
The people everyone describes as 'doing fine' are often the ones whose real answer hasn't been requested in months. A look at the specific exhaustion of being competent in public, and what the research on loneliness, movement, and self-control actually tells us about the gap between how things look and how they are.
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The complete story of the Cassini-Huygens mission and how a 20-year journey to Saturn rewrote our understanding of habitable worlds
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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 Pitch to Allies: Build a Starlink Alternative Before It’s Too Late
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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The quiet grief of outgrowing people who knew you before you became yourself
Outgrowing the people who knew you first is a grief with no ritual and no clear object. Drawing on developmental neuroscience and identity research, a look at why becoming yourself often costs you the relationships that helped build you — and why that loss deserves to be mourned honestly.
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When Climate Denial Becomes Counterinsurgency: The Philippine Playbook
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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D2D services are at risk of becoming too complicated and siloed
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.
Qingzhou prototype cargo spacecraft completes rendezvous tests in orbit
China has conducted rendezvous and proximity operations tests involving a prototype cargo spacecraft and a satellite in a step towards low-cost orbital infrastructure.
