Space Industry Wrestles Reality on a Roll

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, I have

Lessons Not Learned

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) by

For Sale: One SmallSat Rocket

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 the

Military Milestones, Costs, and Culture

I’m going to admit this up front--I went down a rabbit hole in this analysis. A long one. But I guarantee you this particular analysis is COVID-19-free. The Milestone that Isn’t

Space Engineers & OneWeb’s Launch Costs

It now looks like COVID-19 is impacting India’s space industry. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India’s space agency, is implementing measures similar to those of NASA and the European Space