Keith’s note: SpaceX Launched the 11th flight of Starship this evening. The first stage came back exactly as planned. Ship made it to orbit and worked smoothly. Payload doors opened […]
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America’s New Commercial Space Policy Executive Order
Keith’s note: The White House put out a commercial space policy executive order today that says: “It is imperative that we build on the far-reaching actions taken by my Administration […]
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Is NASA Wallops Going GOCO?
Keith’s note: Multiple sources have mentioned ongoing discussion at NASA HQ, NASA Goddard, and NASA Wallops that consider the option of moving toward a Government-Owned, Contractor-Operated (GOCO) model for the […]
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NASA Commercial LEO Space Stations Acquisition Strategy
Keith’s note: according to a 31 July 2025 NASA Directive titled “Directive on Revised Commercial Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Destinations (CLD) Phase 2 Acquisition Strategy“ (see below) says “To ensure […]
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AIA Is Not Worried About Anything
Keith’s note: The Aerospace Industries Association just put put their self-serving and totally anodyne “Space Priorities 2025“. Its all bland happy talk – as if nothing was really happening these […]
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America Now Has Three Monster Rockets- No One Else Does.
Keith’s note: According to Blue Origin: “New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today’s NG-1 mission, accomplishing our primary objective. New Glennâs seven BE-4 engines ignited on January 16, […]
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Yet Another Stealth Space Commerce Event
Keith’s note: In order to make sure that no one outside of the DC space bubble knows what is going on with the Federal government and space commerce, this conference […]
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Blue Origin Almost Launches New Glenn
Keith’s note: like everyone else I stayed up to watch the New Glenn launch and did some TV talking head time too. Here’s the audio from Deutsche Welle prior to […]
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NASA Sleepwalks Through Its Economic Impact Report Release
Keith’s note: NASA put out a report NASAâs Economic Impact Report for fiscal year (FY) 2023. In addition to its data rich/ lousy common language construction (see A Nice NASA […]
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The View From The Summit
[L] Astronaut Scott Parazynski stands atop Everest, the highest point on Earth’s surface, watching a sunrise. [R] Astronaut Jared Isaacman stands atop Resilience, the highest vantage point in Earth orbit, […]