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?
Arianespace: The Only Fish in the Pond (and Keeping It That Way)
Category: Smallsat
Reviewing Some 2022 Space Industry Trends
Up/down, toward/from–trends are the analyst’s Twitter Joke Format: they’re variations of the same thing, often reused and repeated, but seldom funny.
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…
The End of the Beginning of the End (of Expensive Satellites)
SpaceX, Starlink, Starshield…will legacy satellite manufacturers undergo the changes the U.S. launch industry did since SpaceX’s launch of the first Falcon 9?
Mass, Frequency, Reliability: Comparing 2022 China and U.S. launches
Counting launches is helpful, but the resulting total yields an incomplete picture from which to extract a story. All launches aren’t the same and understanding that helps give readers a clear picture.
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.
General Atomics LINCS; Wyler’s New Space Constellation
General Atomics seems to be blaming SpaceX for its satellite troubles. And Greg Wyler decides an order of magnitude is too small for a satellite constellation.
Astra’s Challenges; Loft Orbital Goes Bigger
More concerns about Astra, but from a finance group. Does Loft's agreement with Airbus mean more payloads per satellite or larger payloads?
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