Bad news, but good news followed
Questions for Blue Origin Chris Forrester — Losing a satellite is hardly ever good news, and last week’s April 19 failure for the AST Space Mobile (AST) BlueBird #7 craft […]
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Blue Origin CEO Attributes BlueBird 7 Satellite Loss to Second-Stage Thrust Anomaly
On Monday, April 20, 2026, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp provided an initial technical assessment of the “off-nominal” orbital delivery during the company’s third New Glenn mission (NG-3). While the […]
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Times Microwave Systems Launches Levitate™ Ultra-Lightweight Cables for UAV and Defense Avionics
WALLINGFORD, Connecticut – On Thursday, March 5, Times Microwave Systems, an Amphenol brand, announced the launch of its Levitate™ cable assembly line. The new series is engineered specifically to address […]
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Orbital Infrastructure: The Engineering Hurdles of Upper Stage Reusability
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — In a technical analysis published on Monday, February 16, 2026, space policy analyst Robert Oler detailed the critical engineering trade-offs preventing the industry-wide adoption of fully […]
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The End of the Passive Satellite
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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Force and Pressure: The Interplay of Newtonian Mechanics and Pascal’s Law in Modern Rocketry
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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The Architecture We Inherited: Artemis, Commercial Space, and the Long Shadow of 2010
The January 17 rollout of Artemis II represents a genuine technical achievement and a policy paradox. To understand why NASA is rolling out a roughly $4 billion-per-launch vehicle in an era of reusable rockets, we must examine what happened in 2010, when three divergent futures began that are now converging on Pad 39B.
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NordSpace Advances High-Scale Additive Manufacturing for Medium-Lift Rocket Engines via Canada-Germany R&D Collaboration
In an announcement released January 22, 2026, Markham-based aerospace startup NordSpace confirmed it is receiving advisory services and up to $335,000 in funding from the National Research Council of Canada […]
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Lockheed Martin and GE Aerospace Complete Successful Hypersonic RDR Engine Demonstration
Traditional ramjets require a missile to reach approximately Mach 3 before ignition—But this new RDR architecture is engineered to ignite at lower speeds.
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Pale Blue to Demo Hall Thruster with Axelspace in 2027
CHIBA, Japan — In a significant move to advance propulsion capabilities for the rapidly growing small satellite market, Pale Blue has officially entered into a demonstration contract with Axelspace Corporation. […]
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