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What if spacecraft could launch as individual pieces and assemble themselves in orbit? Rendezvous Robotics is commercializing TESSERAE, a modular...
A NEW PRESCRIPTION FOR SPACE
Low Earth orbit is becoming a new kind of medical laboratory. BioOrbit’s Ken Savin explores how microgravity can help researchers...
BEYOND THE LAUNCH LICENSE
Commercial space regulation has traditionally focused on reaching orbit and returning from it. Skip Smith of Greenberg Traurig explores the...
LIGHTS-OUT IN ORBIT
Making something once in microgravity proves what is possible. Manufacturing requires repeatability, scale, and autonomy. Helogen CEO Shishir Bankapur explores...
THE INTELLIGENCE LAYER
Physical infrastructure creates the places and systems where the space economy can operate. Sammy Moseley of Palantir explores the intelligence...
BUILDING THE MARKETPLACE LOOP
Starlab CEO Marshall Smith sees the next generation of commercial space stations as more than destinations. They are part of...
The Epicenter
The International Space Station became more than a laboratory in orbit. Through decades of research, technology development, commercial partnerships, and...
RECONSTITUTING ORBIT
Orbital resilience begins on Earth. Amentum’s Win Farrell and Greg Wood explore the ground infrastructure required to launch, recover, and...
EXTEND-CLEAR-REPEAT
A sustainable orbital economy depends on keeping useful spacecraft working and clearing failed assets when their missions end. Michael Madrid...
Fuel with no expiration date
What changes when fuel becomes something spacecraft can acquire instead of simply conserve? Stefan Powell of Dawn Aerospace explores an...
ENERGIZING ORBITAL MANEUVERABILITY
As spacecraft become more capable and orbital operations more dynamic, energy is becoming a strategic resource. Andrew Rush of Star...
Removing the biggest bottleneck
As spacecraft demand more powerful computing, radiation remains a major constraint. Yanni Barghouty of Cosmic Shielding explores how advanced shielding...
BEYOND LINE OF SIGHT
A sustained lunar economy will require communications that extend beyond individual missions. Elizabeth Kryst of ispace U.S. explores how shared...
THE REUSABLE SATELLITE
What if a satellite could come home? Brian Taylor of Lux Aeterna explores a new model for spacecraft designed to...
TOW TRUCKS OF ORBIT
What happens when a satellite needs a tow? Troy Morris of KMI Space explores how in-space mobility could reposition valuable...
MANEUVER WITHOUT REGRET
A spacecraft capable of changing the plan has more than mobility. It has options. Kara Grubis of Agile Space Industries...