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Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Blue Origin Lands, China Stumbles, and Golden Dome Takes Flight

This week remind­ed me why I enjoy work­ing in the defense and space sec­tors. We wit­nessed his­to­ry in the mak­ing, strate­gic piv­ots that will reshape entire indus­tries, and the kind of tech­no­log­i­cal break­throughs that sep­a­rate lead­ers from fol­low­ers. Let me… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Government Shutdown Ripples Through Launch Schedules While Mega-Deals Reshape the Sector

The space indus­try faced a week of con­trasts as gov­ern­ment dys­func­tion col­lid­ed with pri­vate sec­tor momen­tum. While the ongo­ing fed­er­al shut­down cre­at­ed oper­a­tional headaches for launch providers and con­trac­tors, bil­lion-dol­lar deals and strate­gic acqui­si­tions con­tin­ued to reshape the com­mer­cial space… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Golden Dome Takes Shape as NASA Leadership Drama Unfolds

Team, here is your week­ly Space Indus­try Cheat Sheet. In the past week, it has solid­i­fied my opin­ion that the chal­lenges the Unit­ed States faces are not tech­ni­cal, but rather a lack of uni­ty. There have been updates to the… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Golden Dome Update, Europe’s Bold Merger, China’s Lunar Ambitions, and the D2D Shakeup

Team, here is your week­ly cheat sheet. My ini­tial con­cern is that the ongo­ing gov­ern­ment shut­down has slowed the Gold­en Dome of Amer­i­ca’s efforts. My cur­rent under­stand­ing is that over 1,000 com­pa­nies have sub­mit­ted for the IDIQ. Depend­ing on who… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Starship Soars, Defense Dollars Flow, and Europe Eyes Independence

Team, here’s your week­ly space indus­try roundup. Even with the con­tin­ued gov­ern­ment shut­down, the week brought major devel­op­ments across com­mer­cial, mil­i­tary, and inter­na­tion­al space sec­tors that could reshape our approach to orbital oper­a­tions and home­land defense. SpaceX Clos­es Chap­ter on… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Special Report — Accelerating Defense Innovation through Lesson Learned from Commercial Space

How Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy Can Trans­form the Gold­en Dome Ini­tia­tive The Gold­en Dome mis­sile defense sys­tem rep­re­sents Amer­i­ca’s most ambi­tious defense pro­gram since Rea­gan’s Strate­gic Defense Ini­tia­tive. With a $175 bil­lion price tag and the promise to rev­o­lu­tion­ize home­land defense, it… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Germany’s Bold $41B Bet, Maxar’s Identity Crisis, and China’s Growing Ambitions

Good morn­ing, every­one. Austin here with your week­ly space indus­try cheat sheet. From mas­sive defense invest­ments to cor­po­rate rebrand­ing and some explo­sive set­backs, the space sec­tor con­tin­ues to evolve at break­neck speed. Let’s dive into the sto­ries that caught my… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Dream Chaser Pivots to Defense as China Flexes Orbital Muscles

Team, here with your week­ly space indus­try roundup. This past week brought about sig­nif­i­cant shifts in the com­mer­cial space land­scape, from Sier­ra Space’s sur­pris­ing piv­ot away from ISS mis­sions to Chi­na’s increas­ing­ly bold demon­stra­tions of space sur­veil­lance capa­bil­i­ties. Let’s dive… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Weekly Wrap: Golden Dome’s Trillion-Dollar Reality Check, Space Force Modernization, and Commercial Momentum

Hey every­one, Austin here with your week­ly space indus­try roundup. This week brought some sober­ing cost pro­jec­tions for the Gold­en Dome mis­sile defense sys­tem, sig­nif­i­cant progress in Space Force mod­ern­iza­tion efforts, and con­tin­ued momen­tum in the com­mer­cial space sec­tor. Let’s… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Weekly: Congressional Pushback, MDA’s $151B SHIELD Contract, and Launch Milestones

The space indus­try wit­nessed sig­nif­i­cant devel­op­ments this week, from Capi­tol Hill bat­tles over NASA’s flag­ship rock­et to the Mis­sile Defense Agen­cy’s mas­sive new con­tract­ing vehi­cle and esca­lat­ing geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions affect­ing space oper­a­tions. Here’s what busi­ness lead­ers need to know about… con­tin­ue read­ing »

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