Esper Satellites’ Sales Surge Despite Losing Its First Satellite
The startup’s sales have ballooned from less than $1M in revenue at the start of the year to more than $10M now, CEO Shoaib Iqbal revealed to Payload.
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Reflex Aerospace To Fly New Optical Comms System
Satellite architects are looking to lasers for more bandwidth.
Skynopy Inks Partnership With Amazon AWS
The partnership will give Skynopy 15 ground stations, up from just three. However, the collaboration means much more than just wider access to terrestrial antennas.
New Report Warns NASA Is Spread Too Thin
“It’s time to repair the roof. And I use that literally, because we were in several facilities where the roof was literally leaking.”
Defense Tech Firm Anduril Brings AI Software to Space
Anduril is formally jumping into the space game: expanding its AI-powered tech into space to working on national security missions.
RAND Wants The Space Force Focus on Human Security
RAND argued that the Space Force’s assets should be used to identify and to head off global crises before they spiral out of control.
ispace Sets Second Moon Landing Attempt For December
ispace is one of three private companies that will attempt Moon landings this winter, and the only mission not funded by NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
SpaceX Polaris Dawn Crew Completes the First Commercial Spacewalk
Early Thursday morning, the Polaris Dawn crew opened their Dragon capsule to the vacuum of space, and two private astronauts walked right out.
Jeff Bezos Opens Up About New Glenn, Discusses Reusability and Manufacturing
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.
Astroscale Wins Next Phase of UK’s COSMIC Mission
Astroscale’s UK branch announced it had won a contract on Wednesday to continue working on an active debris removal mission that will take two defunct British sats out of orbit. The £1.95M ($2.5M) contract from the UK Space Agency will fund development of the Cleaning Outer Space Mission through Innovative Captures, or COSMIC, spacecraft. COSMIC: […]
Congress on VIPER Cancellation: Not So Fast
Four top lawmakers sent a letter to NASA late Friday casting much doubt on the agency’s decision to halt its VIPER mission after already sinking $450M into the spacecraft, which was fully assembled and awaiting testing.
Boeing To Launch Groundbreaking Orbital Quantum Experiment
Quantum entanglement swapping has been demonstrated in the lab, but never before in space.