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Prototype Spaceship Resumes Glide Flights Ahead of Next-Generation Vehicle Test Program
VSS Unity Returns to Spaceport America to Prepare Pilots, Operations Teams for New Spaceship
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Multi-Year Contract Renewal Targets Automation of Space Domain Awareness Imagery
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European Space Infrastructure Partnership Targets Sovereign Satellite Manufacturing by Decade’s End
Schaeffler and Spire Global Sign MoU to Build Industrialized German Satellite Platform Business
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The Only Question That Matters Now for CLD Suppliers
The Architecture Changed, but the Risk Didn’t Go Away. It Moved.
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Five-Year Contract Targets GPS Modernization for U.S. Military PNT Enterprise
Award Covers Acquisition, Sustainment Support Across Three Air Force Bases
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Lunar Rover Contract Advances NASA’s Moon Base Vision for 2028
Astrolab, Lunar Outpost Selected to Deliver Crewed Rovers to the Lunar South Pole
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When Rockets Explode
Why Crisis Communications Is Now a Core Space Industry
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BRAND:Space - The Integration Illusion
The space industry's supplier ecosystem drives mission success, yet remains strategically invisible. Here's why that power imbalance threatens the…
May 27
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Michael Daily, APR
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The Professional Infrastructure Gap in Space Communications
Space communications professionals have no dedicated association, certification, or crisis framework. Here's what the infrastructure gap costs the…
May 27
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Michael Daily, APR
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Five Skills Every Space Communicator Needs — And Where the Gaps Are
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The NASA Station Award That Cannot Slip
What CLD Phase 2 Means for Supply Chain Leaders Before Summer 2026
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Armed Spacecraft, Unarmed Policies
The Insurance Gap Golden Dome Just Created for Commercial Operators
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Amazon Leo vs. Starlink
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NASA’s Demand Pivot
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GEO-to-LEO Migration
The Financial Winners, Losers, and Stranded Assets
May 13
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SpaceX at $1.75 Trillion
The Investor Risk Register the Syndicate Didn’t Write
May 11
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Supply Chain
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Axiom Space After Ignition
NASA's Ignition framework ratified Axiom Space's ISS module contract. Here's what the supply chain, capital, and BD signals mean for commercial LEO in…
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The Only Question That Matters Now for CLD Suppliers
The Architecture Changed, but the Risk Didn’t Go Away. It Moved.
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The Product Recall That Isn’t
China's gray-zone playbook uses fake product recalls to disrupt U.S. space supply chains. USSF FOE 2040 names the tactic — and three critical…
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The Regulatory Authorization Is Done. Procurement Is Late
How the New Spectrum Rules Reshape the Component Supply Chain
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The Moon Base Supply Chain Is Already Behind
NASA's $20B Moon Base program spans 2,700+ suppliers across 47 states. Here's the procurement architecture, phase timeline, and five risks every…
May 29
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Capital & Investment
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European Launch Capacity as a U.S. Supply Chain Hedge
PLD Space Raises $209.5M in Series C Round
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Portal Space Systems’ $50M Series A
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May 22
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The SpaceX IPO and the Space VC Exit Problem
SpaceX's $1.75T IPO filing changes acquisition, SPAC, and IPO exit channels for all space investors. Analysis of xAI losses, valuation trajectory, and…
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India’s Commercial Space Industrial Base
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The Framing Gap Is a Material Business Risk
The framing problem is upstream of every other industry challenge — and it’s hiding in plain sight.
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Space Foundation: Convening the Industry for More Than 40 Years
Comms VP Rich Cooper on the State of the Industry in the Wake of Space Symposium
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Unpacking the Space Supply Chain
AIA and PwC Report Identifies Successes, Pressure Points
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Weird Space Stuff: Jay Schwarz on the Journal of Space Commerce Podcast
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Using AI to Train Space Warfighters
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NASA GAO Questions the Moon Lander Program, and AIAA Publishes Satellite Operator Best Practices
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The FCC Rewrites the Rulebook on Direct-to-Device, and the Satellite Industry’s Annual Report
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Satellite Spectrum Rules Get a Major Update From the FCC. And the Earth Observation and Satellite Propulsion Markets
Space Commerce Week for Sunday, May 10, 2026
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The FCC Reshapes the Satellite Landscape, and That Market is Poised to Thrive
Space Commerce Week for May 3, 2026
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