SpaceX Improves Falcon 9 Performance and Flies a Record 24 Starlink v2 Mini Satellites
After over 300 flights and 13 years in service, Falcon 9 continues to improve as SpaceX tweaks the design for higher performance.
IM-1 Is Sideways, But We’ve All Been There
CEO Steve Altemus reports that the payloads on board are still functional.
Lockheed Shows Off its New Speed
Lockheed Martin ($LMT) is trying to buck the sluggish reputation often attributed to defense primes.
How IM-1 Landed Softly On The Moon
Intuitive Machines ($LUNR) became the first private organization to land on the Moon.
Vast to Bid on Private Astronaut Missions to the ISS
Vast announced its intention to compete for NASA contracts to organize private astronaut missions to the ISS—a role that has been filled exclusively by Axiom Space since the flights commenced in 2022.
Astronomers Identify Record-Breaking Quasar
The brightest object in the universe—or at least, the brightest we’ve seen yet—shines 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun, and it eats a Sun a day.
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.
FAA Announces New Committee To Evaluate Launch Regs
The FAA is establishing a new committee to improve its launch licensing requirements after industry officials complained that the agency’s 2021 update made life more difficult.
Payload Research: The Ultra Low-Cost Economics of NASA’s CLPS Lunar Program
The ultimate goal—along with science—is to foster a sustainable commercial lunar market where NASA can add to demand rather than monopolize its own closed-loop economy.
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.
Swiss Start-up Studying Satellite Refueling for UK
The UK Space Agency has tapped in-orbit servicing start-up ClearSpace to research satellite refueling, taking a step toward the British agency’s commitment last fall to invest in space sustainability.
Russia Pursues New ASAT Capability Amid Declining Space Program
The news of Russia pursuing a new ASAT capability comes nearly two years after its invasion of Ukraine, which sparked international sanctions that harmed the nation’s economy and placed a strain on its once-great space program.
