In about mid-March 2020, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 with a payload of 60 Starlink satellites. The first stage of the Falcon 9 had been launched four times before, making the March
“New DoD Policy To Ease Space Secrecy Near: Raymond”--Breaking Defense, April 2020“...and despite the Presidential order to refrain from unwarranted classification, a culture persists that defaults to the avoidance of risk
Plenty of articles have been written about the “Future of the Space Industry” after the world has dealt with COVID-19. So much literary hand-wringing goes on in these opinions and prognostications,
The Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Space Development Agency (SDA) hosted an Industry Day last week and presented its plans for deploying 20 satellites in two near-polar low Earth orbits (LEO)
Rocket Auction
Around the beginning of this month, a Chinese “commercial” launch company, Expace, put up one of its rockets for auction on the Chinese site, TaoBao. The auction was live-streamed, with
