DEORBIT - Space Force just issued a decay notice for BlueBird 7, saying it reentered on Apr 20 (with no further details)

The F-35 Is a Masterpiece Built for the Wrong War Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to produce quickly or cheaply. It

The United States has invested heavily in high-end capability. The war in Iran suggests the harder problem is sustaining that force when losses mount, and logistics become contested.

Anthropic's Mythos AI model sparks fears of turbocharged hacking Cyberdefenses could be exposed faster than fixes could be deployed.

“This feels like the discovery of fire: a force that can profoundly improve our lives or, if mishandled, cause real harm across the digital world."

Following America's Artemis-2 Moon Mission Through China Humans flew around the Moon for the first time in over fifty years, reports from the other side of the Pacific followed the mission’s major milestones.

Artemis-2 flew around the Moon with humans for the first time in fifty years, and over in China the mission was followed through its major milestones with no mention of a 'space race'

Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/following-...

Kubilius to MEPs: Want to keep Putin away? Outproduce him. Fast - EU Perspectives By 2027 every euro spent from Brussels on military innovation will pass from grant to field test in four months.

A very precise summary of last week’s debate with MEPs at the #SEDE Committee meeting ⬇️
euperspectives.eu/2026/04/want...

Konkurrenz zu Musks Starlink: Spanisches Start-up überzeugt die NATO mit atmenden Satelliten YouTube video by euronews (deutsch)

Spanish startup gets €8m from NATO fund for air breathing VLEO satellite.

youtu.be/IoDiZDMTv40?...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope assembly being lifted out of the Space Environment Simulator after thermal vacuum testing. Credit: NASA, Jolearra Tshiteya

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Flickr (Oct 24, 2025)

The inner portion of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully passes thermal vacuum testing after 65 days of assessments.

flic.kr/p/2rHi1Ac

Antitrust Authority Approves Creation of Rheinmetall-OHB Satellite Joint Venture Germany’s independent competition authority has approved the creation of a Rheinmetall-OHB joint venture to bid on a military satellite communications contract.

Germany’s independent competition authority has approved the creation of a Rheinmetall-OHB joint venture to bid for a satellite communications constellation for the country's armed forces.
europeanspaceflight.com/antitrust-au...

EU and Japan hold first-ever defence dialogue focusing on supply chains | Euractiv European and Indo-Pacific security were becoming “more and more indivisible”, Japan's Defence Minister said

As part of implementing its Security and Defence Partnerships, the EU and Japan held their first ever defence dialogue. Slowly but surely the EU is expanding upon its defence cooperations:

Central banks can lose credibility quickly when policy decisions are seen as politically driven. Evidence from Brazil shows that even a single ungrounded policy shift can unanchor inflation expectations and deteriorate inflation dynamics.

Amazon agrees $11.6bn takeover of satellite group Globalstar Deal will bolster tech group’s efforts to challenge Elon Musk’s Starlink with its own low Earth orbit satellite business

Amazon agrees $11.6bn takeover of satellite group Globalstar

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Doesn't Starlink also provide services to foreign governments like Italy?

I should have added the question about market power.

It is sometimes an interesting question where a market starts and where it ends and how that defines whether some companies are competitors and to what degree.

See also here: www.centralbank.ie/docs/default...

Though, I wonder how much of the gap is due to the fact that multinationals book large profits and intangible assets in Ireland for tax reasons, which inflates GDP even though much of the underlying economic activity and ownership lies elsewhere.

Mind the Gap Ireland is the second richest country in Europe, and this week a single protest shut it down. Here's why.

Source:

www.butthistime.com/p/mind-the-gap

Striking figure by Sinéad O’Sullivan

They are so incredibly dumb. From Messias to Antichrist, from one extreme to the other. Can't they just see that Trump is just a dumb, narcistic, corrupt person who has fooled them not once, not twice, but a thousand times.

Ce lundi, New Glenn est sur son site de lancement pour son 3è tir, avec une particularité notable, son premier étage "Never Tell Me The Odds" qui a été vérifié, repréparé et va donc être réutilisé pour ce vol orbital.

C'est un moment très important pour Blue Origin... Et pour le monde des lanceurs.

210. What is America’s problem with the WTO? Former US ambassador Maria Pagán joins for a wide-ranging conversation about the World Trade Organization, from America’s longstanding concerns to the recently failed ministerial conference.

THIS WEEK:
- US criticisms of the World Trade Organization
- Trump’s actions toward the WTO so far
- That WTO ministerial conference in Cameroon
tradetalkspodcast.com/podcast/210-...

ESA probe JUICE is on its way to Jupiter and had the opportunity to take pictures of interstellar object 3I/Atlas on its way out of the Solar System.

Have a look:
www.dlr.de/de/aktuelles...

My concern with the Hungarian election is that "the symptom" has been addressed, eg. Orban is gone, but the "illness" is still there: The Unanimity Requirement in so many areas. I fear that the perceived need for constitutional change will fade away because "see.. we don't need it". Just until

Now I think about doing holiday in Hungary also to support the economy and indirectly the new government. Let's try to make sure that they want to remain part of the European family!

I really needed that! I guess we all needed that! Finally some good news!

El líder opositor Péter Magyar arrasa en las elecciones en Hungría y pone fin a los 16 años de la era Orbán, que admite su derrota El candidato del partido opositor Tisza logra una mayoría parlamentaria de dos tercios que le permite deshacer el sistema iliberal del actual primer ministros ultraconservador

Victòria d’Europa i de la democràcia.
elpais.com/internaciona...

This really is rather inspiring.
Thank you Hungary.

What a result! Thank you Hungarians! 🇭🇺🇪🇺♥️

A great day for democracy and for Europe