Ars Technica
Blue Origin delays New Glenn again, China vows to put boots on the Moon by 2030, and Artemis II's launch punched the ionosphere harder than any rocket before it - including Starship, which is twice as powerful.
NASA
NASA realigns its lunar lander contracts, swaps out orbits, and promises a 2028 Moon landing with a 'Super Bowl-caliber team' - because nothing says cosmic ambition like a sports analogy.
SpaceNews
Space companies want to launch 70,000 satellites, but AI data centers are buying up all the switchgears and China controls the gallium. Something's got to give.
Ars Technica
Rockets are blowing up, not launching, or finally launching on time - plus a NASA telescope that got to space without drama.
Grist
Billionaires promise to fix Earth by trashing space, and we've got a new word for it: 'starwashing' - greenwashing with a rocket.
SpaceNews
Blue Origin's Tory Bruno gets the honor of leading World Space Week 2027, because the Moon isn't going to promote itself.
Ars Technica
China's Chang'e 7 mission to the Moon's South Pole is delayed to 2027, likely due to Typhoon Narra, opening the door for Blue Origin's Blue Moon to potentially get there first.
MIT Technology Review
Humans go to space because we have itchy feet, and also because we want to see what's on the other side - even if that other side is a black void that makes us question everything.
SpaceNews
Virgin Galactic pushes back commercial space flights to February 2027 due to a bunch of tiny fitting issues, but hey, the tickets are still selling like hotcakes.
SpaceNews
Blue Origin figures out its rocket exploded because of a valve, because of course it did, and ULA nervously eyes its own BE-4 engines.
SpaceNews
The Air Force is throwing another $11.7 million at Blue Origin to study rocket cargo, because who needs working rockets when you can have studies?
The Guardian
Wally Funk, the Mercury 13 pilot who was denied NASA astronaut status for decades before finally flying to space at 82 on Blue Origin, has died at 87.
Ars Technica
Jeff Bezos, apparently tired of bankrolling Blue Origin's space ambitions alone, is raising $10 billion from outside investors - because even billionaires need a little help keeping up with Elon.
SpaceNews
A New Glenn explosion, aging infrastructure, and a looming launch capacity crisis have the government considering whether to open its wallet or just hope for the best.
SpaceNews
Blue Origin says it'll have New Glenn flying again by year's end using a hybrid pad approach, because rebuilding the old one would be too mainstream.
Ars Technica
Blue Origin's pad gets a renovation, Relativity eyes Mars (again), and China's rocket debris says hello to the ISS.
Inside Climate News
As companies rush to turn orbit into a data center and the night sky into a commodity, scientists and space lawyers ask: who authorized this cosmic land grab?
SpaceNews
NASA's Artemis 3 commander says one year is plenty to train for a mission the agency itself calls 'one of history's most complex,' citing Apollo 11's six-month prep as proof. Sure, what could go wrong?
SpaceNews
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes during a hotfire test at Cape Canaveral, destroying the vehicle and damaging the pad, setting back Amazon's satellite plans and NASA's Artemis program.
Ars Technica
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket decides to become a spectacular fireball during a static fire test, destroying the launch pad and potentially delaying NASA’s lunar plans - but at least the Amazon satellites were safe.
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