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Q3: Big Checks and Rocket Risk
Space venture funding hit a record $3.1 billion in September — but the industry's real problem could be a scarcity of rockets, even if SpaceX’s Stars…
1 day, 1 hour ago
Don't Waste a Molecule. Close the Air Loop.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman knows that breathing efficiently is really the trick that unlocks human deep space travel. He recently paid a visit…
1 week ago
U.S.-China Summit: Trump, Xi, and the State of the Space Race
Did space just get short-shrift at this week’s summit? Naming China as the No1 threat, U.S. military officials did just confirm the existence of on-o…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Orbital Space Weapons — Meh, Pivotal, or Both?
Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink reveals that the United States has placed weapons in orbit, and the new Space Force Chief of Space Operations, …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
U.S. Space Academy: "Doesn't It Make Sense?"
States are already vying to become the home of the White House's proposed Space Academy, but what critical problem set should it solve? Do we really …
4 weeks, 1 day ago
What’s the Payload the President’s 1,000-Launch Memo Should Deliver?
Gen. Douglas Schiess just became the Space Force's third Chief of Space Operations, but in the days before the transfer of responsibility, President …
1 month ago
Space Force: Targeted Growth In a Time of Budgetary Uncertainty
While operating on the brink of a government shutdown has become the not-so-new normal, a fresh take on the Space Force's FY 2027 budget request show…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Satellites, War, and Humanitarian Law: The ICRC Explains
Companies rarely know how a military is using their satellites — and that blind spot could quietly turn commercial infrastructure into a legitimate t…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
SpaceX's Q2: A Neo Cloud With a Rocket Side Hustle
SpaceX posted its first earnings report as a public company this week, the same week its first share unlock hit the market, more than doubling the fl…
2 months ago
Space Competition: China 1H 2026: Rockets, Vassals, and Purges
China's on the cusp of truly competing with SpaceX with a reusable rocket, while it supplies Iran and Russia and Xi Jinping purges another of the nat…
2 months, 1 week ago