Early commercialmomentum 795,688 papers a year (+5%)$77B raised in 12 months15 companies
New ways to reach, build in and use space: reusable rockets, factories in orbit, phone links from satellites, Moon landers and nuclear power.
Why early commercial: SpaceX's IPO prospectus reports over 570 Falcon 9 booster landings, while Starship, orbital factories and phone-to-satellite service are still ramping. Jun 12, 2026This week: Caltech named Reid Wiseman as NASA JPL Deputy, the Artemis III SLS Core Stage joined boosters, and a new dwarf planet candidate was discovered.
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NASA announced a suite of awards and mission updates on Saturday to expand the agency’s Moon Base exploration, science, and infrastructure capabilities. The investments will advance commercial robotic deliveries, a nuclear-powered rover named PROMISE, launch and orbital transfer services, and surfac
City lights from the Midwestern United States to the East Coast sparkle across the landscape a couple of hours before sunrise on Oct. 18, 2026. Major urban areas visible in the photograph include Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and the New York metropolitan region. The International Space Stat
Caltech-led demo is a milestone for constructing large-scale space systems.
NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) guidance, navigation, and control paylo
NASA selected three companies on Wednesday to perform work to develop Ka-band space relay capability concepts that are compatible with current missions in space, ensuring service continuity for existing spacecraft without requiring modifications to their onboard systems. Through this work, NASA will
Led by MaC Venture Capital, Toyota Ventures
Led by Iron Wolf Capital
Led by Point72 Ventures, Spark Capital
Led by 137 Ventures, BANNER VC
Led by US Innovative Technology Fund
Led by Linse Capital
Led by RPM Ventures
Flies reusable Falcon 9 and Starship rockets and Starlink, including satellite-to-mobile service.
Building Nova, a fully and rapidly reusable medium-lift rocket.
Building a satellite cellular broadband network that reaches ordinary smartphones.
Builds the New Glenn reusable rocket and Blue Moon lunar landers.
Runs an orbital manufacturing and reentry platform for drug crystal processing.
Building Haven-1, a commercial space station.
Publishes on Space technology at Nanyang Technological University: 37 papers in 2 years.
Publishes on Space technology at National Institute of Technology Warangal: 91 papers in 2 years.
Publishes on Space technology at Northwestern Polytechnical University: 64 papers in 2 years.
Publishes on Space technology at Amazon (United States): 25 papers in 2 years.
DARPA program to advance nuclear thermal rocket propulsion for cislunar missions.
Joint effort to put a fission reactor on the Moon for Artemis by 2030.
Lin Zhi, Niu Hehao, Yuanzhi He et al. · China Communications
Yue Xiao, Ziqiang Ye, Mingming Wu et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Ruichen Zhang, Hongyang Du, Yinqiu Liu et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Zhi Lin, Zimo Feng, Kefeng Guo et al. · IEEE Wireless Communications
Qingchao Li, Mohammed El‐Hajjar, Kaijun Cao et al. · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
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