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Good science isn't enough.

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Aug 20, 2026

Good science isn't enough.

A top deep-tech VC breaks down the machine that turns university research into companies — the seven parts, what Singapore gets right, and what the rest of Southeast Asia can work on.

Shirley Saw
Shirley Saw
The satellite that's ready for space — and stuck on the ground.

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Aug 12, 2026

The satellite that's ready for space — and stuck on the ground.

Vietnam's most capable satellite is stranded on the ground. This week, a nine-month-old startup owned by the country's richest man found a way around the problem. Two paths to space — and what they say about the region.

Shirley Saw
Shirley Saw
A company in Thailand is rewriting Southeast Asia's path to orbit.

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Aug 26, 2026

A company in Thailand is rewriting Southeast Asia's path to orbit.

A hybrid fuel that ships as ordinary cargo, already proven in flight over a Malaysian palm-oil estate, and a government now behind them. Inside Equatorial Space — and the launch-pad setback that never touched the rocket.

Shirley Saw
Shirley Saw

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The satellite that's ready for space — and stuck on the ground.

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Aug 12, 2026

The satellite that's ready for space — and stuck on the ground.

Vietnam's most capable satellite is stranded on the ground. This week, a nine-month-old startup owned by the country's richest man found a way around the problem. Two paths to space — and what they say about the region.

Shirley Saw
Shirley Saw
The last station standing: China was locked out of the ISS, so it built its own — and it isn't slowing down.

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Aug 5, 2026

The last station standing: China was locked out of the ISS, so it built its own — and it isn't slowing down.

Barred from the world's space station by a US law, China built its own from scratch. It's a fifth the size — and it just set the record for the longest spacewalk in history. What it is, what it's done, and what China wants to do with it next.

Shirley Saw
Shirley Saw

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Four People Just Broke a 56-Year Record. Most of Asia Didn't Notice.

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May 17, 2026

Four People Just Broke a 56-Year Record. Most of Asia Didn't Notice.

Artemis II just looped the Moon — and what Asia is quietly choosing.

Shirley Saw
Shirley Saw

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A company in Thailand is rewriting Southeast Asia's path to orbit.

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Aug 26, 2026

A company in Thailand is rewriting Southeast Asia's path to orbit.

A hybrid fuel that ships as ordinary cargo, already proven in flight over a Malaysian palm-oil estate, and a government now behind them. Inside Equatorial Space — and the launch-pad setback that never touched the rocket.

Shirley Saw
Shirley Saw
Good science isn't enough.

/

Aug 20, 2026

Good science isn't enough.

A top deep-tech VC breaks down the machine that turns university research into companies — the seven parts, what Singapore gets right, and what the rest of Southeast Asia can work on.

Shirley Saw
Shirley Saw
The satellite that's ready for space — and stuck on the ground.

/

Aug 12, 2026

The satellite that's ready for space — and stuck on the ground.

Vietnam's most capable satellite is stranded on the ground. This week, a nine-month-old startup owned by the country's richest man found a way around the problem. Two paths to space — and what they say about the region.

Shirley Saw
Shirley Saw
The last station standing: China was locked out of the ISS, so it built its own — and it isn't slowing down.

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Aug 5, 2026

The last station standing: China was locked out of the ISS, so it built its own — and it isn't slowing down.

Barred from the world's space station by a US law, China built its own from scratch. It's a fifth the size — and it just set the record for the longest spacewalk in history. What it is, what it's done, and what China wants to do with it next.

Shirley Saw
Shirley Saw
India's first private rocket reached orbit — from a company that existed before the law did.

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Jul 29, 2026

India's first private rocket reached orbit — from a company that existed before the law did.

On 18 July, a company that isn't the government put a rocket into space from Indian soil, on its first try. The founders started that company in 2018 — betting India would one day write a law letting them fly. India still hasn't written it.

Shirley Saw
Shirley Saw
Building a rocket is not the only way into space. Hong Kong mapped it 5 ways.

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Jul 22, 2026

Building a rocket is not the only way into space. Hong Kong mapped it 5 ways.

I went to a space event in Hong Kong expecting rocket engineers. The room was financiers, lawyers and family offices — and a former NASA scientist was telling them they belong there.

Shirley Saw
Shirley Saw
The rockets got cheap. Asia is building what they carry.

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Jul 16, 2026

The rockets got cheap. Asia is building what they carry.

For 50 years the price of reaching orbit barely moved — then it fell 97%. But most of Asia never joined that race. Here's what the region builds instead.

Shirley Saw
Shirley Saw
China and the US on the Moon: a status update.

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Jul 8, 2026

China and the US on the Moon: a status update.

In February — sixteen days apart — China's Long March 10 flew for the first time and NASA pushed its crewed landing to 2028. Next month, a Chinese prospector heads for the exact real estate both programmes want.

Shirley Saw
Shirley Saw
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