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 launch
“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, I have
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
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
