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Independent journalism on three connected frontiers — the space industry, the science behind it, and the psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes. Since 1995. Click to read SpaceDaily.com, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers. Space Daily · spacedaily.substack.com
On 3 December 1992, in a Vodafone office west of London, a 22-year-old British software engineer named Neil Papworth sat at a desktop computer terminal, typed “Merry Christmas” using full words rather than the now-conventional abbreviations, and pressed send. The message travelled through the Vodafone cellular network and arrived seconds later on a four-and-a-half-pound Orbitel […]
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