Astra Targets Golden Dome With Small Rockets, Says CEO Chris Kemp
“We’re going to do target practice. We’re going to make the clay-pigeon rocket,” Kemp said. “That’s great, because that will drive scale for us…and allow us to bring our cost down for commercial customers, and other government customers.”
Trump Taps Space Execs For Military Space Roles
Both nominees will need to be confirmed by the Senate before they can get on the job.
Astrobotic Hotfires Engine That Could Power Moon Missions
The continuous burn of 300 seconds (five minutes) with one of their two Chakram engine prototypes was one of several tests the company conducted at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL.
Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Center Cost Analysis
In this piece, we open our models to compare the build costs of an orbital data center and a terrestrial data center (inclusive of the delay-driven terrestrial opportunity cost).
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UNIVITY Raises €27M Series A
Blast Club and Expansion Venture Capital contributed to the round, which also included support from the Deep Tech fund managed by Bpifrance.
Lawmakers Promise to Reject Proposed NASA Cuts—Again
“I simply do not believe that this budget proposal is capable of supporting what President [Donald] Trump himself has directed the agency to accomplish,” Babin said.
Tracking Sats From the Sea
Satellites protect Navy ships by giving them domain awareness. Some officers think the Navy can return the favor.
ATMOS Space Cargo Raises €25.7M Series A
“This financing allows us to move to regular operational service,” CEO and cofounder Sebastian Klaus said in a statement. “With ATMOS WORKS and PHOENIX 3, we are building the full architecture—commercial, institutional, and defense-capable—in parallel.”
Payload Field Guide: Golden Dome
When Golden Dome was first announced (under a different moniker) in January 2025, companies immediately got to work, positioning themselves to compete for the ambitious missile defense program aiming to protect the US.
Opportunities Beyond the Moon Opened by CLPS
NASA said it intends to launch monthly uncrewed missions to the Moon starting next year. That’s good news for more than just Moon-focused companies.
Economics of Orbital Data Centers Report: Part 1
Today, we’re kicking off the first analysis article in a four-part report unpacking the economics of orbital data centers.
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NASA’s 2028 Moon Landing Has A Spacesuit Problem, New Report Says
NASA’s 2028 Moon-landing date for astronauts is threatened by delays in spacesuit development, according to an Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report released Monday.
