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Oct 10, 2023
More VC Headwinds Likely
Over the past decade, venture capital (VC) has emerged as a critical source of funding for space startups, with total investment surging mor


Oct 3, 2023
Space Norway satellite delays show how rough COVID hit Northrop Grumman
It’s rare that satellite operators, especially those not publicly traded, give granular details about the reasons for their programmatic del

Sep 27, 2023
Blue Origin’s leadership shakeup: the change the company needs?
Bob Smith, Blue Origin’s CEO of six years, is departing the company in a move widely perceived as the end of a lackluster era.


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

Jul 19, 2023
Kuiper spending $10B on launch alone
Amazon’s launch costs for Project Kuiper, its constellation of ~3,200 broadband satellites, are much higher than initially estimated, accord

Jul 5, 2023
How China’s new rare element export rules may hurt the global space industry
The chip war has finally caught up with the space industry. Two days ago, Beijing declared that gallium, a unique material used in several s


Jul 3, 2023
Low GEO Orders are Here to Stay. Here’s What that Means.
Commercial geostationary communications satellites, long the lifeblood of the industry, remain chronically below historic order levels


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 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 1, 2023
The most important GEO launch of the year
SpaceX's April 30 Falcon Heavy launch carried a trio of missions that each have the potential to rewrite the business


Apr 18, 2023
2023 (so far) reaches decade+ low in GEO satellite orders
So far, 2023 is shaping up to be an abysmal year for GEO satellite orders. Maxar's April 18th contract announcement with DISH for a TV broad

Apr 13, 2023
iSpace stock volatility amid Hakuto-R landing attempt
Shares of Japanese lunar lander company iSpace saw a 4x increase in price this week amid hype that the company's Hakuto-R lander


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

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 13, 2023
Voyager to acquire ZIN Technologies
Voyager continues to expand its human spaceflight portfolio with the acquisition of ZIN Technologies, a leading provider of critical

Mar 10, 2023
The Unknown Unknowns of Starship
he announcement by startup K2 Space that it is designing massive satellite platforms with up to 15,000 kilograms of payload space

Feb 25, 2023
Ocean-based launchpads, an old cure for a new problem?
Launching orbital rockets from a ship is a decades-old idea that keeps resurfacing in fits and starts.

Feb 24, 2023
ULA’s rapid ramp up plans for Vulcan
After nine years of development, ULA now has a launch date of May 4 for the first Vulcan mission.

Feb 21, 2023
Launcher abandons rocket plans in Vast acquisition
In the chronically overcrowded world of small launch vehicles, there is now one less. Space station startup Vast Space announced
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