3 days ago Back to Virgin Orbit, & the U.S. Army Talks “Starship Troopers” Will Virgin Orbit be the cheapest smallsat launch provider? Only if it actually launches a rocket. The U.S. Army wants a rocket...for tanks.
5 days ago SpaceX, Propellant Depots, and Rocket Markets SpaceX wins from NASA a contract to develop a capability. ULA had tried to get that funding over a decade ago...
Oct 12 Virgin Orbit--a Year Ago and Now It’s hard to believe a little over a year has passed since Chris Quilty and I wrote up the analysis “Virgin Orbit – Approaching...
Oct 8 The Beginning of the End (of Expensive Satellites)? The Space Development Agency awarded an infrared satellite manufacturing contract to SpaceX. Why didn't it choose traditional manufacturers?
Oct 7 Looking at the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Selections The following covers a topic that was long near and dear to my heart: low Earth-orbiting satellites with infrared sensors scanning...
Oct 5 OneWeb Update, Scrubbed U.S Launches, What is Reliability? A series of events didn’t occur last week, reminding those of us monitoring their lack of happening that the U.S. space industry is still...
Sep 30 SpaceBEES, Swarm, IoT, and Orbcomm Swarm Technologies has learned a few lessons on the way to the launch of its first commercial satellites earlier in...
