NASA Proposes Tight Budget In A Season of Cuts
The Artemis lunar return remains the biggest ticket item on NASA’s budget.
Tim Fernholz
Viasat and Rocket Lab Team Up on NASA Comms Demo
It’s the first time the legacy comms giant has chosen a “new space” company to build an on-orbit asset.
True Anomaly Aims to Disrupt In-Space Sensing With Proliferated Assets
The Space Force is looking to the commercial sector to provide capabilities that it can “make operational now.”
NASA Cans OSAM-1 After Maxar Delays
An October 2023 report from NASA’s inspector general blamed Maxar, which built the spacecraft bus and a robotic arm for the mission.
A Satellite Conjunction Scare Marks an “Inflection Point” in Collision Risk
This is just the sixth time in the last two years that two non-maneuverable space objects have come so close.
Goodnight, Sweet Prince: Saying Goodbye to IM-1
By the time you read this, the sun will have set on Odysseus, Intuitive Machines’ Moon lander.
Earnings Report: What We’re Waiting For
Rocket Lab Needs Neutron The second-busiest US launcher’s losses—and future profits—all hinge on Neutron, a rocket designed to compete with SpaceX’s Falcon 9. CEO Peter Beck said the first hot fires of the new Archimedes engine will set the schedule for the rocket, which the company has ambitiously forecast to be on the launchpad this […]
IM-1 Is Sideways, But We’ve All Been There
CEO Steve Altemus reports that the payloads on board are still functional.
How IM-1 Landed Softly On The Moon
Intuitive Machines ($LUNR) became the first private organization to land on the Moon.
Lonestar Data Holdings Performs Data Demo in Cislunar Space
One company is on the way to proving that the same things that make the Moon inhospitable to people—cold, barren, hard to reach—make it a perfect setting for long-term, secure data storage.
Inside Booz Allen Hamilton’s Hunt for the Right Space Startup
The two-year-old fund has invested in Albedo Space, which aims to make very low flying satellites, and Synthetaic, an AI start-up most famous for finding the origin of a Chinese spy balloon buried in satellite data.
Astroscale’s ADRAS-J To Rendezvous With Orbital Debris
The company’s inspection satellite will approach the abandoned upper stage of a H-2A rocket that’s been floating aimlessly in space since 2009