Michael Bruno, Aviation Week — The first launch of Rocket Lab’s proposed medium-lift Neutron is slipping to no earlier than mid-2025 due to development of its Archimedes engine, executives said May 6.

Susan Karlin, Fast Company — SWF2030 believes its success stems from two elements: involving senior executive volunteers to ensure a greater corporate commitment; and having companies share traditionally private workforce data.

Theresa Hitchens, Breaking Defense — Increased congestion in LEO and GEO are increasing space insurance premiums, according to a new report from Slingshot Aerospace.

Space station module developer Gravitics scored a $1.7 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop orbital platforms to enable responsive space missions.

WASHINGTON — Companies ranging from Blue Origin to a startup are proposing concepts for missions to visit an asteroid before it makes a very close flyby of Earth in five years.

In this opinion piece for SpaceNews, Uma Bruegman, executive director of the Space Safety Institute at The Aerospace Corporation, writes: “We need a holistic, integrated, enterprise-level approach to address space safety gaps. To do this, we must maximize data sharing, possibly by establishing standards and databases for storage and sharing.”

WASHINGTON — In his latest missive to Guardians, Space Force chief Gen. Chance Saltzman urges service leaders to urgently implement the service’s new readiness model — a rotating training-to-operations process he says represents the “most drastic change accompanying the establishment of the Space Force.”

University of Florida Distinguished Professor Rob Ferl will be the first NASA-funded academic researcher to conduct an experiment as part of a commercial space crew on an upcoming mission of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.

Welcome to the seventh edition of Space Threat Assessment by the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). For the last six years, CSIS has used open-source information to produce an annual assessment of threats to U.S. national security space systems posed by foreign government capabilities.

Sandra Erwin, SpaceNews — SpaceWERX, the tech innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force, is teaming up with the Aerospace Corporation to establish a “Technology Readiness Level” bootcamp lab in El Segundo, California. The TRL bootcamp is designed to guide companies through a structured framework that assesses the maturity of their technologies, according to Debra Emmons, vice president and chief technology officer at the Aerospace Corporation.