If SpaceX achieves VP of Flight Kiko Dontchev’s recently established goal of another 26 launches by the end of the year, the company will not only notch a new record, but set the stage for an even higher flight rate in 2025.

in September, the U.S. Space Force selected four companies – Astranis, Axient, L3Harris and Sierra Space – to submit design concepts for a layer of “Resilient GPS” (R-GPS) aimed at producing smaller, more affordable spacecraft to supplement the existing GPS system.

Supply chain fragility has been a perpetual challenge for the satellite industry, often centering on subsystems and components for which there are very few suppliers.

SDA needs a spiral development plan for user terminals

Europe’s Commercial Cargo Experiment Begins

What Quilty Space identified as a risk for Amazon’s Project Kuiper two years ago is now a concern the U.S. military shares.

In years past, small countries often financed geostationary satellites under the auspices of national sovereignty.

In a year marked by budget atrophy at NASA, NOAA-OSC, and the Space Force, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) was a notable outlier.

Defense News officially confirmed a long-circulating industry rumor. Raytheon is done chasing SDA prime contracts.

After watching startups launch dozens to hundreds of small imaging satellites in Low Earth Orbit, the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office is getting in on the action.

On March 12, Japan’s cabinet approved a 10-year fund of $6.7 USD billion (1 trillion yen) to promote satellites, space exploration, and transportation.

On March 1, NASA terminated a $2 billion program to create a refueling satellite, the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1).

f “space is hard” is the industry’s favorite adage, the runner up cliche is that we have a “do nothing Congress.”

Countries that spend heavily on defense almost always, by extension, are space powers, given the high number of dual-use technologies (propulsion, telecom, reconnaissance sensors).

At least six commercial space station efforts are under way to replace the International Space Station by 2031.

Since at least 2018, China has had two or more purported LEO constellations in the works.

n 2018, Swedish network operator Ovzon ordered one of the first small GEO satellites (1,000-2,000kg), expecting a typical three years to build and launch.

On Dec. 12, news of the FCC’s final decision to reject Starlink’s appeal to qualify for $886M in federal subsidies to connect rural and unserved communities caused an uproar within the space sector and sparked heated political debate.