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Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. The military doctrine of Dynamic Space Operations envisions satellites dodging interceptors, inspecting unresponsive objects, and performing orbital acrobatics. Yet inside the SmallSat Symposium’s session on Smart Mobility: Propulsion and Maneuverability for Agile Smallsats, the vibe waxed less cinematic.
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Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. The visionaries pitching Mars colonies have largely left the building. In their place sit investment bankers, project finance lawyers, and strategic investors who are currently rewiring the architecture of the $613 billion space economy. At this year’s SmallSat Symposium, the speculative exuberance of the SPAC (special-purpose acquisition company) boom has vanished, replaced by a mood of disciplined pragmatism. The Space Capital Markets session delivered a painful clarity to the room: the novelty of access to orbit is commoditized. Value now relies on applying traditional financial rigor to orbital infrastructure.
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Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. For years, the SmallSat Symposium acted as a showcase for cheaper data relays and internet-from-the-sky optimism. But inside the Grand Hall today, the mask slipped during the session on Building the Physical Layer of Autonomy. The industry isn't just building smarter cameras but constructing the nervous system for orbital combat.
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JIUQUAN, China – The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has completed an “extraordinary” integrated flight test involving its next-generation Mengzhou crew capsule and the Long March 10 (CZ-10) reusable rocket. […]
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DENVER, Colorado – In the wake of the sudden departure of long-time President and CEO Tory Bruno, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is moving to stabilize its flight manifest and rebuild […]
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The European space community began an emotional countdown at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, marking the final hours before the maiden flight of the Ariane 64. As the most […]
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On January 22, 2026, Blue Origin announced that its upcoming New Glenn-3 (NG-3) mission will mark a historic double-milestone: the first in-orbit reuse of a New Glenn booster and the […]
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On January 20, 2026, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) released a progress report identifying a payload fairing separation anomaly as the root cause of the December 22, 2025, failure […]
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In the aerospace sector, the success of orbital delivery and recovery cycles is fundamentally dependent on the equilibrium between Newtonian mechanics and Pascal’s principle. During the launch phase, Isaac Newton’s […]
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In a significant expansion of its maritime launch capabilities, China has completed construction of its first offshore platform specifically engineered for the launch and recovery of reusable liquid-propellant rockets. According […]
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