Iridium Communications has agreed to acquire the remaining 61% of Aireon, its satellite-based aircraft-tracking subsidiary, in a $367 million deal that is…
Cowboy Space, the orbital infrastructure startup founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to deploy up to 20,000 satellites carrying data center hardware in low Earth orbit.
There is a particular set of life skills that adults who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s tend to possess by default, and that adults who have grown up in the…
Christina Koch said it on Saturday April 11, 2026, in an auditorium at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston, after the four members of Artemis II had…
Lunar missions are running into a navigation wall. Landers heading for the south pole this decade cannot rely on GPS, the Moon has no positioning constellation…
Scientists in Germany have reported the first direct detection of upper-atmospheric pollution linked to the reentry of a specific piece of space debris, after…
JWST has just resolved a galaxy as it existed 800 million years after the Big Bang, even as NEO Surveyor — the only NASA mission Congress has required by statute — remains decades behind its asteroid-catalog deadline. The gap inside a single agency is the lesson.
NASA imaged the Kuskokwim's spring 2026 ice breakup at Aniak in clean weekly cadence from orbit; one year earlier the EPA had clawed back a $20 million flood-mitigation grant to Kipnuk, downstream on the same river. The asymmetry between federal observation and federal adaptation is now legible on a single waterway.
The two largest European satellite operators are abandoning planned geostationary satellites and pushing the capital toward low Earth orbit, a clear signal that the GEO build-out era is winding down even at its most committed players.
There is a particular kind of fatigue people describe about the rooms they live in, and they often cannot name it.
Work can provide identity, status, and routine, making retirement an adjustment for some people. A quiet retired man has not necessarily lost the only identity anyone valued.
A quiet participant may be reflecting, disengaged, shy, tired, or waiting for space to speak. Introversion research does not establish superior depth of processing.
When a flight gets cancelled, the explanation passengers receive is usually some variation of the same short list.
This piece is a synthesis of published research on the social and psychological transitions of retirement.
Contestants must retrieve information while managing timing, rules, and evaluation. Viewers face fewer demands, but that does not make every home answer directly comparable.
Over the past seven years, China has done several things that, in space policy terms, are not small.
