Morgan Martell will talk about space national security with anyone who will listen. And since joining True Anomaly as a government affairs manager nearly one year ago, she found that most folks on Capitol Hill are all ears.
Astranis, a startup building small GEO broadband satellites for targeted service, led the way this quarter with its $200M monster Series D round, by far the largest US space raise so far in 2024.
Spanish rocket startup PLD Space’s 10-year roadmap includes big plans for large reusable rockets and crewed spacecraft.
200 Mbps Wi-Fi offered for free sounds pretty good to me. What’s in it for the airlines? Is Starlink going for the sweep? What happens to the GEOs?
Global orbital launch attempts declined year over year in Q3 for the first time in years.
Traditional Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) providers will soon face competition from relay communications networks that promise faster transmitting, simplified licensing, and potentially lower cost.
Eric Berger’s new book Reentry takes readers behind the scenes, offering unprecedented access to company leaders who appear eager to (finally) tell the inside story of SpaceX’s rise.
When Planet Labs went public in 2021, the company touted a commercial Earth observation market on the verge of an inflection point.
The opposite has happened.
Early Thursday morning, the Polaris Dawn crew opened their Dragon capsule to the vacuum of space, and two private astronauts walked right out.
It was a Willy Wonka-style event—a wealthy entrepreneur finally opening the doors to his secretive facility filled with innovative gadgets at a scale beyond imagination. However, instead of chocolate rivers, fizzy-lifting drinks, and Everlasting Gobstoppers, we were treated to fuel lines, heavy-lifting rockets, and boosters designed to last 25 launches.
Chinese rocket startup iSpace announced yesterday that it secured $99M in Series C and C+ funding to help accelerate the development of its first-stage reusable launch vehicle, Hyperbola-3.
ABL Space Systems announced a round of layoffs late last week, a month after a pad fire destroyed the company’s second RS1 rocket.
