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MilitaryPolicy

Trump Confirms SPACECOM Move to Alabama

The official relocation to the Redstone Arsenal installation is the latest chapter in a multi-year back-and-forth that started in the final days of Trump’s first term.

InternationalPolicy

Op-ed: Space Science Is Part of the Space Race with China

Beijing is pressing ahead with an ambitious space science effort designed to close the gap with—or even exceed—US capabilities in the coming decades. If our elected leaders believe that America’s continued leadership in space is paramount, they must press our national lead in space science.

PolarisPolicy

Scientists Call For New Agency to Promote, Oversee Space

The Federation of American Scientists recommended that the Space Promotion and Regulatory Agency should be formed by merging the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation and the Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce. 

BusinessMilitary

True Anomaly Hires Sarah Walter As COO 

“I am a big proponent of go fast, fail, learn and repeat, and continue to get better.”

Launch

Rocket Lab’s Neutron Pad Is Open For Launch

Officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the oceanside Launch Complex 3 on Thursday. While pausing to mark the milestone, however, Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck said there’s still a lot of work to be done—and that the company is racing to meet its goal of launching Neutron on its first flight by the end of the year.

Civil

NOAA’s Weather Sat Do-Over Starts With Less 

The next-generation of US weather satellites isn’t so next-generation anymore.

CivilEuropeStartups

Inside Aerospacelab’s Pitch to Build IRIS2

Payload sat down with Benoît Deper, Aerospacelab’s founder and CEO, to discuss the startup’s pitch to manufacture Europe’s secure satcom constellation.

EuropeOpinion

Op-ed: Space is Getting Dangerous. We’re Not Building for It.

If conflict erupts in Europe, the first strike won’t be on land, at sea, or in the air. It’ll be in orbit.

EO

Planet’s Production Pelicans Are Now On Orbit

An interview with Planet’s chief space officer.

BusinessSatcom

EchoStar Stock Explodes After AT&T License Deal

The AT&T deal has other competitors, like T-Mobile and Starlink, hungry for their own piece of EchoStar’s pool of underused spectrum licenses. 

Launch

Starship’s Tenth Test Flight Deploys Payloads for the First Time

SpaceX’s losing streak is over. 

Launch

Firefly Explains Alpha Launch Failure

Can you say “plume induced flow separation” three times fast?