How realistic is it to believe nothing will go wrong with a rocket's first launch? While some companies do well, history demonstrates reasons to think different.
The Realities of Launch vs. Unreasonable Expectations
Category: Virgin Orbit
National Security Space Launch: Phase Trois
Phase 3 of the DoD’s National Space Security Launch program is supposed to help the U.S. keep pace with a “pacing challenge.” Inevitable questions arise.
Arianespace: The Only Fish in the Pond (and Keeping It That Way)
Is a launch company that can’t field rockets for new customers still a launch company? If not, should European leadership still be taking its advice?
Virgin Orbit and the CAA: A Cry for Harry Tuttle?
What’s a bureaucracy for but to keep Icarus down? Virgin Orbit is facing its own Brazil and may do so again…and again…and again…
Indian Launch Industry: OneWeb Provides a Big Hint
Maybe NSIL’s launch of OneWeb’s satellites points to a future in which both companies can update their Peanuts wardrobes?
Phantom Space: Running with the Crowd?
Is there anything new and compelling with Phantom Space? Unfortunately, the company’s reasons for existing show a distinct lack of pure imagination.
Compromised Capabilities: Smallsats As Tools, Not Cornerstones
Examining a smallsat report from the Atlantic Council using hatchbacks and trailer trucks.
One Symposium Trend: Smallsat manufacturing
Sure, there were plenty of announcements from Space Symposium, but none were as potentially impactful as Amazon’s press release. While no other “big” PR’s came out, one trend continued.
Bluster II: the Breakup
What happens if you take away space opportunities and no one notices or cares? We’ll find out soon, once Rogozin stops shooting himself and Roscosmos in the foot.
Right ’round About Spinlaunch and Rocket Lab’s Latest Acquisition
Spinlaunch has conducted a very short suborbital "launch." But its projected launch pricing is enticing. Also, a look at Rocket Lab's acquisition of PSC.
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