China’s 2024 Space Day Updates
China held its annual Space Day conference last week, unveiling new insights into the space program’s hardware development.
Jack Kuhr
Detailing Launch Startup Funding Part 2 (Firefly Aerospace)
Last week, we covered ABL, Relativity, and Stoke funding, three launch startups that have yet to reach orbit. This week, we are focusing on a business that has hit its orbit proof point, Firefly Aerospace.
Detailing Launch Startup Funding
The next few years are make or break for launch startups—either achieve orbit and scale or go the way of Astra and Virgin Orbit.
Q1 Space Industry via Charts
The first three months of 2024 was another busy quarter for the space industry, underscored by continued growth in SpaceX’s launch cadence and a solid VC funding environment. Below are the four charts defining the quarter.
Inside NASA’s SBIR Phase III Program, By The Numbers
NASA’s SBIR funding—particularly its Phase I & II tracks—has become a vital source of non-dilutive capital for early-stage space startups.
Tracking Starship’s Progress with Additional Flights on the Horizon
We have entered the Starship era.
Detailing Artemis Vehicle R&D Costs
NASA is on pace to exceed $100B of Artemis funding by FY26, according to nominal dollar data from OIG, NASA budgets, and Payload analysis.
Blue Origin’s 2025 Lunar Landing Goal
Blue Origin aims to land its Blue Moon Mark 1 cargo vehicle on the Moon next year, setting an aggressive timeline as it seeks to chart a new course of decisive action and big swings after not reaching orbit in its first two decades of operations.
Blue Origin’s ULA Investment Case
ULA is up for sale, and all signs point to Blue Origin as the buyer.
The Ultra Low-Cost Economics of NASA’s CLPS Lunar Program
Intuitive Machines will attempt its IM-1 lunar landing tomorrow afternoon with its first Nova-C lander, named ‘Odysseus,’ as it aims to become the first commercial spacecraft to achieve the feat.
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