SpaceNews
NASA's Gateway cancellation triggers Paragon to lay off 70, but the company insists it's not a fatal blow - just a 'setback' with a silver lining of intellectual property.
TechCrunch
Northrop Grumman's space robot mechanic is moving on up, leaving an Optus satellite to make way for a fancier robot with arms that will keep satellites alive longer. Because space junk is so last decade.
SpaceNews
The Pentagon is scrambling to build more missiles after discovering that shooting them all is faster than making new ones, and also wants a mix of fancy and cheap options.
SpaceNews
Northrop Grumman and Canada are repurposing their lunar Gateway work for a moon base, because why build an orbital station when you can just... not?
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.
Ars Technica
From lightning-struck Chinese rockets to Starship engine swaps and oil platforms turned launch pads, the rocket industry keeps finding new ways to reach orbit - and new delays.
Ars Technica
Northrop Grumman's new robotic servicing satellite is basically a tow truck with two arms, headed to geosynchronous orbit to fix satellites that weren't designed to be fixed - because why launch a new one when you can just send a robot?
SpaceNews
Northrop Grumman takes another $91 million charge on Vulcan rocket boosters, with fixes expected by year-end, as ULA's rocket remains grounded and HALO module faces an uncertain future.
SpaceNews
Northrop Grumman tells the Pentagon it can churn out more solid rocket motors, but only if the government stops buying them like toilet paper - one roll at a time.
SpaceNews
The Pentagon wants to build 5,000 missiles a year, but solid rocket motors are still the party pooper, and throwing money at the problem might not fix it.
SpaceNews
Congress tells the Space Force to keep a $3.4 billion satellite program alive because sunk costs are apparently a compelling argument.
SpaceNews
The Space Force drops $398M on a Northrop Grumman satellite that's really good at ignoring cosmic rudeness, launching no earlier than 2030.
SpaceNews
A rocket booster's bad day costs Northrop Grumman $71 million and grounds the Vulcan Centaur, prompting the Space Force to consider flying it without the problematic parts.
SpaceNews
Faced with a grounded rocket, the Space Force explores the advanced strategy of launching it without the part that failed, because sometimes the best fix is to just not use the broken thing.
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