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Sep 14, 2023
A Billion Reasons Left to Root for this NASA Initiative
As threats of FY 2024 budget cuts lurk in the shadows of haunting GAO reports, recent awards may hint at which NASA programs and players


Sep 8, 2023
Starship Gets Ready to Rumble
We are slightly concerned he wasn’t spiking the ball on Twitter (ugh, X) seconds after the FAA announced Friday that the Starship mishap

Aug 21, 2023
Is that an Alarm or Just the Sound of a Familiar Tune? A closer look at SDA’s latest $1.5B Tranche 2 awards
Even more confusing than why the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) 72 Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) “Beta” satellites precede the 100 T2TL


Aug 10, 2023
A hypersonics deal with small launch on the side?
U.S. defense company Kratos Defense and Security Solutions announced Aug. 9 plans to buy up to 20 Dart AE hypersonic vehicles


Jul 26, 2023
Is the ORCHESTRA NGSO Effort Ready to Call?
Earlier this week, Viasat nixed Inmarsat’s “ORCHESTRA” V-band filing with the FCC, presumably ending the company’s lukewarm attempt to


Jun 28, 2023
What does Anduril’s solid motor gambit mean for space?
Heavily capitalized defense startup Anduril Industries has made a mission out of disrupting various defense industry subsectors, namely AI

Jun 16, 2023
Palantir’s win: a boon for EO?
Fresh off its $463M USSOCOM contract last week, Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) just landed another $110M in three, one-year, firm-fixed

Jun 9, 2023
Rivada CEO drops some financing crumbs ahead of RRB decision
As Rivada Space Networks readies for word from the ITU’s RRB on whether its milestone waiver request will be granted


Jun 8, 2023
LeoStella’s plight shows how the U.S. is a hard market for European satellite manufacturers
When announced in 2019, LeoStella looked poised for success. The 50/50 joint venture of Thales Alenia Space and Spaceflight had built a fact


May 16, 2023
Why Europe never committed to satellite servicing until now
Thales Alenia Space's May 15 announcement that it is building a satellite servicing vehicle comes after years of European primes flirting


May 9, 2023
Viasat can thank Starlink, for once
Despite a very public rivalry that's included Viasat fighting to block Starlink through regulators in the U.S., France and elsewhere, today


May 8, 2023
Is the Space Force going more commercial?
The boss of the newly created Commercial Space Office, Col. Richard Kniseley, is serious about making greater use of commercial space


Apr 11, 2023
NASDAQ grants Astra 180-day extension
Astra has avoided delisting for now, but the company still has a long way to go to achieve a healthy stock price, among other things


Apr 6, 2023
Brazil's Telebras is off the market
Brazilian media is reporting that President Lula da Silva reversed the previous administration's efforts to privatize certain

Mar 24, 2023
Axiom helping to "glow-up" NASA's spacesuit game
NASA's Artemis astronauts will be returning to the Moon in-style, as seen today in NASA's unveiling of the new Axiom Space moonwalking

Mar 15, 2023
Another milsatcom program that forgot the ground segment
The Space Development Agency is weeks away from launching the first satellites in its advanced LEO constellation, the Proliferated

Mar 9, 2023
IRIS2 schedule begins to slip
The EU, in giving final confirmation of its intent to deploy the secure, multi-orbit satellite network IRIS2

Feb 24, 2023
Is DoD finally warming to satellite services?
For over a decade, the space industry hoped to win the U.S. military as a customer – and hopefully an anchor customer

Feb 13, 2023
EU follows UK’s dubious pattern of scrutiny over Inmarsat-Viasat merger
EU antitrust regulators have reached the same conclusion as Britain’s top regulators in its review of Inmarsat’s proposed merger with Viasat

Feb 2, 2023
ILS CEO goes to Spaceflight
This is a big win for Spaceflight in getting a high-caliber industry executive to succeed Curt Blake, who had 10 years at the helm
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