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Amazon Leo: Ariane 6 consolidation + India market entry

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Amazon Leo has produced over 1,000 satellites but has only about 400 in orbit, short of the 1,616 the FCC required by July; regulators stripped its spectrum priority as a penalty. It has since won…

Dream Chaser's FAA re-entry license for a Vandenberg return

updated — status: open Space faa

The FAA has licensed Sierra Space's Dream Chaser to re-enter Earth's atmosphere and come back to Vandenberg Space Force Base. The license covers only the return: the craft must still launch first,…

Falcon 9 retirement

updated — status: open Space spacex launch constellations

SpaceX is winding down commercial Falcon 9 launches as Starship takes over, and new commercial reservations for Falcon 9 are no longer being accepted. Retail Transporter/Bandwagon rideshare bookings…

NASA reopens the commercial Hubble servicing mission

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NASA has reopened the possibility of a commercial mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, marked by a federal contract opportunity. No bidder, mission scope, or funding figure is yet known.…

New Glenn

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Blue Origin's only New Glenn launch pad was wrecked by a May 28 static-fire explosion, and the rebuilt launch tower is now fully stacked again. The company says the pad should activate in…

Orbital data centers / space compute (Starmind lineage)

updated — status: open Space spacex nvidia constellations infrastructure

Starship

updated — status: open Space spacex launch regulation Arc · The next crewed Moon landing Arc · The first crewed Mars landing

Anthropic is SpaceX's largest customer — 34.5% of the Q3 10-Q's $14.6B quarter

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SpaceX's mystery "Customer B" is Anthropic, which accounted for 34.5% of the company's $14.6 billion in Q3 2026 revenue and became its largest customer. That quarter's revenue was up 161% from 2025,…

Artemis III

updated — status: watch Space nasa launch Arc · The next crewed Moon landing

NASA has stacked the Artemis III core stage between its two boosters, keeping the mission on a summer 2027 target after an acknowledged delay. NASA describes Artemis III as a 14-day mission in which…

Russia's Starlink alternative: Putin calls Musk a "genius" and discloses "close contact"

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has publicly called Elon Musk a genius and said the two are in close contact, as Russia develops its own alternative to Starlink. The backdrop is the…

Starbase Louisiana: SpaceX's $100B Gulf Coast spaceport

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SpaceX plans a $100 billion, ten-pad Starship launch site on roughly 125,000 acres in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, targeting construction in 2027 and a first launch in 2029, though the realistic date…

Rocket Lab–Iridium merger

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Starfall: SpaceX's commercial reentry/manufacturing service

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SpaceX's Starfall reentry capsule is building a customer manifest for returning manufactured payloads from orbit, with Exolaunch and Space Cargo Unlimited booking Starship missions in 2028 and 2029.…

Starlink Mobile

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SpaceX has FCC approval for Starlink Mobile covering up to 15,000 next-generation satellites, plus a waiver to serve phones without a traditional wireless carrier, and it has bought about $8 billion…

Rocket Lab Electron

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Electron's mission-by-mission launch record, kept apart from Rocket Lab's financing and the Iridium combination: mission names, outcomes, and the small-customer constellation flights as they land.

SpaceX earnings and financing

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SpaceX, listed since June, reported third-quarter revenue up 161% on October 20 and a $4.4 billion net profit, with AI-compute revenue of $7.6 billion passing Starlink's. Musk says SpaceX has closed…

Artemis IV

updated — status: open Space nasa launch Arc · The next crewed Moon landing

Korean space startups turn Nuri-era tech into business

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Korean space startups are turning launch vehicles, AI satellite imagery, and orbital drug research into businesses after the Nuri launch. The story is just starting, and the next things to watch are…

Moon-base logistics: NASA's $30B permanent lunar base + bulk launch procurement

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Starlink in Ukraine

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European commercial launch: Isar reaches orbit

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China private launch tempo: SpaceSail dual-sourcing, Raptor-class rivals

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JAXA's MMX: Phobos mission launched, ride on the H3

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Rocket Lab's ESCAPADE pair and the Earth-swingby Mars maneuver

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Starlink for rural schools: Bolivia's 85 La Paz municipalities

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Artemis Accords

updated — status: open Space nasa

Musk's pledge to give every US child one SpaceX share in 2027

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Proximity operations: K2612 stationkeeping near ICEYE X36

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Blue Origin financing

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Blue Origin's first outside round in 25 years came in at about ten billion dollars against a ~140-billion valuation, with Bezos adding his own billions and floating an IPO within a few years; a…

Rocket Lab HASTE: the hypersonic test-flight business

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Stoke Space: $1B raise, Nova Block 2 unveiled

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ISS endgame: 2030 deorbit and the successor race

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Commercial crew: Dragon retirement planning

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ESA: European-led station and crew transport (the €10B fork)

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FAA environmental-waiver rulemaking (EO 14335)

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High-resolution EO supply chain

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Mars Telecommunications Network: Blue Origin's $700M award, Rocket Lab's GAO protest

updated — status: open Space nasa blue-origin rocket-lab litigation Arc · The first crewed Mars landing

US Space Academy: EO 14423, the commission, and the state site race

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AI-enabled imaging constellations: Loft Orbital/Marlan $1B

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Quiet threads

Nuclear NASA: the DOE MOU

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Closed threads

Artemis III astronauts meet Trump; NASA chief says "I'll be fired" if China wins the Moon race

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The Artemis III crew met President Trump in the Oval Office and presented him with a Moon rock as a reminder of where the program is going. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman framed the Moon race as a…

Commercial orbital servicing: Katalyst/Swift

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Ukraine's Starlink alternative: a Nokia + ICEYE partnership

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Rocket Lab's October 21 mission: the launch-date read

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Uzbekistan signs the Artemis Accords as the 77th signatory

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Rocket Lab HASTE: the hypersonic test-flight cadence

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Space-weapons disclosures: states going on the record

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ISS logistics: Progress MS33 out, MS35 slip

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