Inside The White House’s Plan For Space Deregulation
Sorting through launch licenses, environmental reviews, and novel space activities.
Tim Fernholz
Duffy Wants NASA To Leave the Earth Behind
NASA will begin “moving away” from Earth sciences, Acting Administrator Sean Duffy told Fox News last week—a sharp shift in the agency’s focus since it was established in 1958.
NASA Taps Chief for Lunar Fission Power
Steven Sinacore will lead a fast-moving effort to put atomic power on the Moon.
NASA Eyes Private Companies For Swift Orbit Raise
A recent spate of heavy sun storms is threatening a key space observatory.
Vulcan Is On The Pad For Its First National Security Launch
“It is what we designed the rocket to do.”
Umbra Debuts Merchant Space Systems Business
“Every Y Combinator funding round seems to now include some space companies.”
NASA Wants To Hit the Accelerator On Lunar Atomics
The Trump administration’s first big change to the Artemis program is a plan to deliver a 100kw nuclear fission reactor to the lunar surface by 2030, with the job done almost entirely by the private sector.
Orbital Operations Raises $8.8M For High Thrust Orbital Vehicle
“This is a counterspace weapon.”
Blue Canyon’s Got A New Bus For Golden Dome
“This product will support more mass and more power, so that a lot of those defense payloads can be carried on the spacecraft.”
AWS Wants KSAT to Send More Space Data to the Cloud
“They can just go into their AWS account, open up the file, and there’s the data.”
ISRO Launches Groundbreaking US-Indian Space Radar Mission
NASA says this is its most advanced radar satellite, and the first time a spacecraft has carried SAR payloads in two different bands.
Will NASA’s Next Mars Mission Be A Fleet of Helicopters?
The success of the Ingenuity helicopter has teed up a more ambitious vision of aerial exploration on the Red Planet.