Aviation Week — Congress injected $110-120 million for NASA to further nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) research and development and $50 million for nuclear electric propulsion (NEP) efforts under the recently passed appropriations bill. New NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has embraced nuclear propulsion and fission surface power as core to the agency’s mission.
Aviation Week — The SDA awarded a contract to Tukwila, Washington-based startup Starfish Space to deorbit at least one of the agency’s satellites in a mission targeted for 2027. The goal is to validate a commercial “deorbit-as-a-service” model for managing end-of-life disposal in LEO.
Air and Space Forces Magazine — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth exhorted the U.S. space industry to step up its efforts in a forceful Feb. 2 speech at Blue Origin in which he called for a new era of American “space dominance.” Hegseth’s remarks were part of his “Arsenal of Freedom” tour of American defense firms across the country, in which he has touted acquisition reforms made last fall
T-Minus Podcast — Satlyt is integrating its edge-computing framework with Aerospace’s DiskSat platform. “It has always been our plan for DiskSat to be transitioned to industry as quickly as possible,” said Deb Salvaggio, Aerospace’s Director of Technology Transfer. “DiskSat provides the kind of power and scalability that makes real-time computing in orbit possible, said Satlyt CEO Rama Afullo.
The National Law Review — Orbotic Systems plans to use Aerospace’s DiskSat form factor as a host spacecraft for a Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) sensor pathfinder, including integration studies for its WIND (Wind Ion Neutral Density) sensor. The effort is intended to support technical assessment and future mission planning related to VLEO operations.
Aerospace’s groundbreaking work in additive manufacturing received significant recognition at the recent the AIAA SciTech Forum 2026.
As space becomes more crowded and contested, Aerospace is adopting an operational approach that emphasizes flexibility, resilience and speed.
Analog missions conducted in extreme Earth environments that mirror the environments of other worlds are transforming spaceflight risk into exploration readiness.
The Aerospace Corporation brings decades of technical experience with launch ranges to the nation’s effort to modernize infrastructure and build the spaceports of the future.
DefenseScoop — The Department of the Air Force has established seven new portfolio acquisition executive (PAE) offices that will oversee capability development moving forward.
