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Relativity Space has reached orbit exactly zero times. Its only rocket flew once, in March 2023, climbed cleanly through the hardest part…
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The oldest solid material ever identified on Earth did not form on Earth, or anywhere near it.
The word Rolex has five letters, two syllables, and works in every language a marketer might want to sell into.
We tend to picture artificial intelligence as something weightless, a process happening in the abstract, with no physical cost beyond a power bill.
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Space Daily is an independent publication covering three connected beats: the space industry, the science behind it, and the psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes. Founded in Tokyo in 1995, we’ve built a thirty-year archive of rigorous reporting on the people, missions, and ideas pushing humanity outward — and on the human dynamics shaped by frontier life. The same ambitions, pressures, and patterns of mind that drive humanity to the stars also shape how we live on Earth. We employ modern AI technologies to support our editorial workflows; every published piece is editorially directed and reviewed.
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