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2025 Week 20 | US Government Doesn't Want to Be The Only Customer
I. Tracking 1. Co-Investment, Not Commitment: The Military’s Selective Backing of Space Innovation The US military is once again managing...


2025 Week 19 | SpaceX's Concern Should be Amazon.com, not Blue Origin
I. Tracking 1. The Jeff Bezo Billionaire Empire Is Quietly Coming to Take Elon Musk’s US Government Dollars Amazon’s Project Kuiper has...


2025 Week 18 | Concerns About US Leadership in Space Becoming Visible
I. Tracking 1. Eroding Leadership: US Leadership in Space Operations at Center of Investor Conversations For decades, the United States...


2025 Week 17 | Collection of this Various News from the Past Week
I. Quote of the Week “For the first time internationally, we have achieved the ability to use satellites to track other satellites,...


2025 Week 16 | Satellite Autonomy and Propulsion Open Door to True Space Domain Changes
I. Tracking 1. Katalyst and LMO’s Docking Tech May Not Be as Disruptive or Stealthy As It Sounds Katalyst Space Technologies’ new...


2025 Week 15 | Satellite Autonomy and Propulsion Open Door to True Space Domain Changes
I. Tracking 1. Automated vs Autonomous: Technology to Ensure Satellites Require Fewer Human Inputs is Developed In recent months, a...


2025 Week 14 | The NASA CLPS Program is Declared a Success, but Companies and NASA are Still at Risk
I. Tracking Brad Bailey, assistant deputy associate administrator for exploration in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, recently stated...


2025 Week 13 | Collection of this Various News from the Past Week
I. Tracking Our team is away on a consulting mission and will not be providing major insights this week, but stay tuned for an upcoming...


2025 Week 12 | Signs of Splintering in Aerospace Provider Client-Base & Another Tech Billionaire Wants to Build Up a Rocket Company
I. Tracking 1. F-35 could be the canary in the ‘space mine’, as traditional allies consider American diplomatic reliability under the...


2025 Week 11 | World adapts to changes in the US government's will to lead, funding redundancies in capabilities
I. Tracking 1. Ariane 6 succeeds as Starship, its future competitor, struggles with another unexpected failure In the very crowded world...


2025 Week 10 | Japan's startups leading business capabilities for Moon missions, while startups face double-edged sword for being key to future defense contracts
I. Tracking 1. Japan is the clear leader in the current wave of commerical lunar missions Three commercial missions are headed to the...


2025 Week 9 | Financial Outlook for Operators Downgraded, While Another Startup Looks to the Defense Industry for Cash Sustainment
I. Tracking 1. Moody Downgrades Outlook of SES a Month After Downgrading Eutelsat "Moody downgraded SES’s outlook from stable to...


2025 Week 8 | Two Companies Indicate Layoffs, Council on Foreign Relations Echoes Other Calls to Use Private Sector for Defense
I. Tracking 1. The Council on Foreign Relations Releases a Task Force Report Calling on US to Strengthen Space Security As often already...


2025 Week 7 | In Single Week, Primes Remind Startups They Are Still the Favorites
I. Tracking 1. Prime defense contractors compete for military satellite contracts, demonstrating the difficulties of pivoting to a 100%...


2025 Week 6 | Chinese Space Commercial Developments May Put Pressure on Busy Market
I. Tracking 1. China is allowing commercial companies to participate in its lunar exploration missions for the first time, aiming to...


The Paradox of Launch Vehicle Needs
Rockets that can lift larger and heavier payloads to orbit are returning to the space industry, but demand may not make them commercially...


2025 Week 5 | Starlink Efficiency Growth Continues, and Computers Create Questions About Use of Space
I. Tracking 1. SpaceX Launched 27 Starlink at once, setting new record on Falcon 9 The 27 satellites is the interesting piece of...


2025 Week 4 | Two Heavy Lift Launch Vehicles Launched; Commercialized Space Continues to Shift to Government
I. Tracking 1. Two heavy lift launches with mixed results; one was not a success, the other was not a failure. Blue Origin finally...


2025 Week 3 | Lunar market remains similar, ESA looking to evolve
I. Tracking 1. Intuitive Machines integrates a Nokia payload onto its lunar lander scheduled for launch February 2025 Another update...
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