Payload Pioneers 2023: Owen Marr
Owen Marr, a Blue Origin systems engineer working on New Shepard, is driven to make space accessible to all.
Business
Stories on space business, including company updates, funding announcements, and contract awards.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Victoria Carter-Cortez
Victoria Carter-Cortez, a space strategy consultant at the professional services firm PwC, spent her undergraduate years as an astrophysics student.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Jennifer Horowitz
Mapping the Earth from space provides obvious benefits for defense and navigation, but Jennifer Horowitz, Maxar’s senior technical strategic partnerships lead, believes the technology has much broader implications.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Josh Ingersoll
If there’s anyone who understands that the space industry is more than *just one thing,* it’s Josh Ingersoll.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Apoorva Nori
Data collected in orbit is only as good as the systems to quickly downlink the information to Earth. That’s where Apoorva Nori comes in as a technical product manager at Microsoft’s Azure Space, working to connect satellite operators to the cloud.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Brendan Rosseau
Brendan Rosseau believes even Earth-bound businesses need to be prepared for the space economy to take off.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Makena Fetzer
Makena Fetzer’s journey to the space industry began at her high school’s telescope observatory in Arizona, where she spent her time gazing up at the stars.
Investors Publicly Urge Terran Orbital to Step it Up
A group of investors in Terran Orbital ($LLAP) sent a letter to the company’s board on Thursday laying out a pathway to success after “underlying strategic and operational issues” have “significantly harmed the business,” the letter says.
Exclusive: Spaceium and Aphelia Partner on In-Space Recharging
In-orbit wireless charging for spacecraft, here we come.
Proteus Space Emerges from Stealth with a $4.2M Seed
Proteus Space thinks satellite manufacturing takes too damn long.
Voyager, Northrop Team Up For Private Space Station Competition
Northrop Grumman is pulling out of NASA’s competition to build a private space station in LEO as a solo entity to instead pair up with Voyager’s Nanoracks.
NASA Awards SmallSat Contracts
NASA is scaling up its number of eyes in space after announcing a new slate of partnerships with the commercial smallsat crew on Monday.