Carina Nebula — star formation region photographed by JWST

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analysisFebruary 16, 2026

The Great Cosmic Milestones: A Century of Space Discovery Through 2024

From Sputnik in 1957 to JWST deep fields, Chandrayaan-3, DART, and Ingenuity — the defining milestones of a century of space exploration through 2024.

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newsFebruary 16, 2026

Beyond Rockets: The Space Economy Sectors Most Investors Miss

Launch is only 2-3% of the $630B space economy. The other 97% — Earth observation, satcom, GPS, debris removal, tourism, manufacturing — and the sectors investors overlook.

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NASA's DART spacecraft approaching the asteroid Dimorphos for its kinetic impact test

analysisFebruary 13, 2026

DART: How NASA Proved We Can Defend Earth from Asteroids

NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into asteroid Dimorphos at 22,530 km/h in 2022 and shifted its orbit by 33 minutes — proving planetary defense actually works.

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An ISRO rocket launching from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India

newsFebruary 11, 2026

ISRO & NewSpace India Deep Dive: The Sleeping Giant Awakens

Inside ISRO and India's NewSpace boom: 17,000 staff, Chandrayaan-3's lunar win, Gaganyaan crewed plans, LVM3, and the private startups rewriting the rules.

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analysisFebruary 11, 2026

Terraforming Mars: A Century-Long Dream We Might Actually Pursue

Terraforming Mars means warming a -60C desert, thickening a 1% atmosphere and restoring water. The real physics, greenhouse gas plans, and why it may take 1,000 years.

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analysisFebruary 9, 2026

Colonizing Mars: The Biggest Challenges We Must Solve

The real obstacles to Mars colonization: deadly radiation, -80°C cold, toxic perchlorate dust, ISRU fuel, muscle loss, and how SpaceX's Starship plans to solve them.

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The Milky Way galaxy arching across the night sky

newsFebruary 9, 2026

Firefly Aerospace Deep Dive: From Near-Bankruptcy to the Moon — A New Space Success Story

How Firefly Aerospace went from 2017 bankruptcy to landing Blue Ghost on the Moon and flying the Alpha rocket — the most improbable success story in New Space.

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analysisFebruary 9, 2026

Mega-Constellations: Starlink, OneWeb, and the New Internet from Space

Starlink, OneWeb, and Amazon's Kuiper are putting tens of thousands of satellites in LEO. How low-Earth-orbit internet works, direct-to-cell plans, and astronomy impacts.

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analysisFebruary 5, 2026

Space Systems: Exploring the Cosmos and Enabling Our Future

Reusable rockets land themselves, satellite megaconstellations blanket Earth, AI navigates probes. A tour of the space systems powering 2025's golden age of spaceflight.

Planetary ScienceSpace TechnologyReusable Rockets

ESA's Ariane 6 rocket launching from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou

newsFebruary 4, 2026

Italy's Space Legacy: From San Marco to the Vega Rocket and Europe's Spacecraft Factory (Part 1)

How Italy became the third nation in space, built half the ISS's habitable volume, and gave Europe its own rocket — a deep dive into 60 years of Italian spaceflight.

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Japan's SLIM precision Moon lander, which achieved a pinpoint lunar landing

newsFebruary 4, 2026

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Space Deep Dive: Japan's Launch Legacy and the H3 Era

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries space arm: prime contractor for the H-IIA, H-IIB, and new H3 rocket, with Tanegashima launches, HTV cargo, and Japan's national launch backbone.

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guideFebruary 3, 2026

The Overview Effect: How Seeing Earth from Space Changes Everything

Frank White coined it in 1987 — the cognitive shift astronauts feel seeing Earth from orbit. Edgar Mitchell, Hadfield, and Shatner on why borders vanish from above.

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