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The “Delete” Agenda Hits Space

December 23, 2025 / Business & Finance

In Washington, modernization is usually a euphemism for forming a committee to study a problem. For FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, it appears to be a euphemism for a demolition crew. In a statement released Tuesday, Carr summarized his first year at the helm with a metric that matters more than any policy speech: the Space Bureau processed 3,418 applications in 2025, a 21% increase over the previous year, effectively cutting the agency’s notorious backlog in half.

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Bruno’s Exit Leaves ULA at the Mercy of Math

December 23, 2025 / Launch Providers

The timing of Tory Bruno’s resignation, announced Monday and effective immediately, strikes a discordant note in an industry that prizes orchestrated stability.

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The “Smart Money” Blinked. Why Infrastructure Giants Are Losing Patience with Direct-to-Device

December 17, 2025 / Contracts & Commercial Deals

Abbey White | Staff Writer, SatNews — On Monday, American Tower Corp (Tower Corp) officially signaled it was done waiting for the “cell tower in the sky” narrative to pay […]

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Congress Blocks the “Easy Button”: The Strategic Logic Behind Restoring Tranche 3

December 16, 2025 / Defense Budgets & Procurement

The fight over the Space Development Agency's (SDA) budget was actually a proxy war between two acquisition philosophies: the SDA's open shop vs. a classified sole source alternative.

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Europe’s Vanishing Rocket Capability

December 16, 2025 / Launch

Chris Forrester — An Arianespace cargo ship, the spectacular hybrid Canopée (wind and fuel), is this week making the final rounds off the French coast picking up various elements of […]

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When Playground Metaphors Drift into Warfighting Doctrine

December 15, 2025 / Business & Finance

The space industry is splitting into two distinct cultural identities: commercial players utilizing meme-friendly branding versus a defense sector aggressively adopting lethal nomenclature.

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Musk’s next step could be expensive

December 8, 2025 / Business & Finance

By Chris Forrester — The past few days have seen the business pages full of reports that Elon Musk’s SpaceX could have a value of some $800 billion. The reports […]

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Congress desires LEO, but threats are real

December 1, 2025 / Missions & Constellations

By Chris Forrester — Just before the holiday the U.S. Congressional Research Service (a non-partisan research operation) released a study which addressed the potential to bridge the ‘digital divide’. There […]

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