Sea Launch died in 2014 because the economics didn’t work — but a Florida startup founded by two former Crowley Maritime executives just convinced Lockheed Martin and Firefly that the rise of low Earth orbit constellations and a Pentagon afraid of fixed targets have quietly inverted that math 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team Launch ServicesSatellite Manufacturing
What the SpaceX IPO Means for Europe’s Space Industry 2d ago Payload · Douglas Gorman Launch ServicesSatellite Communications
In September 2022 a NASA spacecraft deliberately crashed into a harmless asteroid 11 million kilometres away and shifted its orbit by about 32 minutes — the first time humans had ever moved another world, the moment planetary defence stopped being theory and became something we have actually done. 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
A cluttered desk might not feel like a big deal, but some research suggests competing objects in your visual field suppress activity in the visual cortex, making it harder to focus 2d ago Space Daily · Mal James
What Did AI Find Hidden in 35 Years of Hubble Images? 2d ago New Space Economy · NSE Launch ServicesSatellite Communications
[release] Launch Result of H3 Launch Vehicle flight No.6, 30 configuration Test VehicleLaunch Result of H3 Launch Vehicle flight No.6, 30 configuration Test Vehicle 2d ago JAXA Press
Just 12.5 light years away, around a star so faint it was only discovered in 2003, sits one of the most Earth-like rocky worlds ever found in a habitable zone — and yet we still cannot answer the single question that decides everything: whether it has any atmosphere at all 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
More than two-thirds of the world’s people now live in countries having too few children to hold their populations steady — a quiet reversal, crossed gradually over the past two decades, that demographers say will reshape economies, cities and old age within a single lifetime. 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Why did students paid one dollar to call a boring task enjoyable end up believing it, while those paid twenty dollars did not? 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
SpaceX launches Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral as stock trades on the Nasdaq for first time 2d ago Spaceflight Now · Will Robinson-Smith Launch ServicesSatellite Communications
A two-week mindfulness course might sound too short to make any real difference, but in one UCSB study it cut mind-wandering and lifted GRE reading-comprehension by roughly 16 percentile points, along with working memory 2d ago Space Daily · Mal James
You can have a loving family, a close partner, and a dense network of friends, and still be measurably, scientifically lonely. The phenomenon is called emotional loneliness, and it was first described in 1973 by the American sociologist Robert Weiss, who showed that the absence of close attachment relationships cannot be compensated for by the presence of social ones 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
The longest study of human happiness ever run has followed the same men for more than 80 years — through war, careers, marriage and old age — and its director says the clearest predictor of who stayed healthy and content was not money or fame but the quality of their relationships 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Many people view income and titles as the measure of a successful life, but one study found that the respect you earn within your own face-to-face circles predicted well-being more strongly than your place on the economic ladder 2d ago Space Daily · Mal James
AAC Clyde Space wins ESA contract to complete maritime-monitoring constellation 2d ago SpaceNews · Debra Werner Earth Observation & Remote SensingSatellite Manufacturing
Your fingerprints begin forming before birth, shaped by genetics and the precise local conditions of those few weeks in the womb — which means one of the most personal marks on your body was made before you had a name 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Spending money or free time on yourself sounds like the obvious path to happiness, but some research suggests that doing kind things for others or the world lifts flourishing more than self-focused treats do 2d ago Space Daily · Mal James
Freud suggested a human life rests on two things, love and work, and the surprise is how modern that still feels — not because romance and career solve everything, but because most people know the strange emptiness of succeeding in one while quietly starving in the other 2d ago Space Daily · Nato Lagidze
