Tim Fernholz, Author at Payload

Inside Spire’s Lucrative AI Partnership with Nvidia

Payload spoke to Mike Eilts, a meteorologist and Spire’s general manager for weather and climate, about the deal and predicting weather from space.

Starliner is finally ready for its maiden mission—seven years after the capsule was expected to make its first flight.

SpaceX’s move into EO could present a big challenge to companies selling space data already.

Makers of small satellites for GEO made up the bulk of newly announced spacecraft in 2023.

The company already has 50 orders for the thruster.

The next generation of space capabilities, such as orbital servicing, will require even brainier orbiting robots.

He-3 is mainly used in security and medical sensors to detect radiation, but it could theoretically be used as fuel for a nuclear fusion power plant.

The Artemis lunar return remains the biggest ticket item on NASA’s budget.

It’s the first time the legacy comms giant has chosen a “new space” company to build an on-orbit asset.

The Space Force is looking to the commercial sector to provide capabilities that it can “make operational now.”

An October 2023 report from NASA’s inspector general blamed Maxar, which built the spacecraft bus and a robotic arm for the mission.

This is just the sixth time in the last two years that two non-maneuverable space objects have come so close.

By the time you read this, the sun will have set on Odysseus, Intuitive Machines’ Moon lander.