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Deep SpaceEuropeStartups

For Pulsar Fusion, Business is Bigger in Texas

UK nuclear propulsion startup Pulsar Fusion has dreams of ferrying rockets to the Moon, Mars, and Saturn—but first, they’re headed to Texas.

Military

Is The World Ready for Missile Defense As A Service?

The Pentagon could put elements of the Golden Dome in private hands.

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LunarMoon

Sierra Space Wins $3.6M NASA Lunar Logistics Contract

The contract—part of NASA’s NextSTEP-2 Appendix R set of studies—tasks Sierra Space with examining how it would upgrade its LEO space station technology to withstand the lunar environment, given the Moon’s sharp regolith and extra gravity.

LunarMoon

Intuitive Machines Says The Moon Is Still Go

CEO Steve Altemus hopes to win new NASA Moon contracts in 2025.

CislunarDeep SpaceMoon

Lockheed Martin Hands Over Orion for Artemis II

It is scheduled to carry four astronauts around the Moon in early 2026.

LunarMoonStartups

Blue Ghost Notches First Successful Lunar Landing

The lander is now working on a series of tasks that will last a lunar day—about 14 Earth days—and a few hours into the lunar night.

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Policy

Trump Ditches Isaacman Amid Record NASA Cuts

“They always say [NASA budgets are] dead on arrival—this is extra dead.”

PolicyQ&A

Payload Talks NASA Budget With Rep. George Whitesides

“The United States is leading the world in space technology, and we can’t give that up.”

AnalysisDOGE CutsPolicy

Trump’s “Skinny” Space Budget Winners and Losers

Our guide to the people, companies and concepts that stand to gain, and those that are in trouble.

MoonPolicy

NASA’s FY26 Plan Would Cut Gateway, Phase Out SLS, Orion

The Trump administration’s proposed budget for NASA focuses on beating China back to the Moon and sending the first humans to Mars at the expense of every other part of the space agency’s budget.