NASA adds Starship to Launch Contract

NASA added Starship to its NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract. It will primarily be used for the Human Landing System (HLS) program. SpaceX will develop a lunar lander version of Starship that will be used for the Artemis 3 and 4 crewed landings later this decade.








Space Force to Launch 100+ Sats in 2025

The Space Force is expecting to launch at least 100 satellites in 2025—nearly doubling its number of unclassified operational spacecraft—according to Maj. Gen. Gregory Gagnon, the deputy chief of space operations for intelligence.


US Space Force Warns of Chinese Satellite ‘Dogfights’ in Space

In a 2020 paper, Aerospace’s Dr. Rebecca Reesman and James R. Wilson wrote that satellites move are limited in how much they can change their orbits to intercept other satellites. But Space Force Vice Chief of Space Operations, Gen. Michael A. Guetlein, recently said that five objects recently maneuvered “in and out and around each other in synchrony and in control.”