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How Private capital and innovation will redefine space strategy

Today’s space sector is at an inflection point, poised to capitalise on the tech sector’s gains from cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Just a decade ago, the space economy was dominated by large, school bus-sized satellites. These billion-dollar workhorses served military, intelligence, and civil agencies well for decades, with slow improvements made to their subsystems. Then, much like the tech tsunami that rendered mainframe computers obsolete in the '80s and '90s, the space industry experienced its own revolution.

Pale Blue to flight test water thruster with D-Orbit

Japanese startup Pale Blue announced an agreement Jan. 8 with Italian transportation company D-Orbit to conduct two 2025 demonstrations of a tiny water-fueled thruster

Pentagon unveils strategy to harness commercial space tech for national security

Assistant secretary of defense John Plumb: “We need to integrate commercial tools not just in peacetime but also in conflict.”

Keeping space tidy should become a global UN goal

The rising threat of space junk should be tackled by a new global agreement to safeguard Earth’s orbit, say a group of researchers who are calling for the United Nations to make the protection of space a key international goal

AST SpaceMobile strikes spectrum deal amid Ligado Networks bankruptcy

Satellite operator AST SpaceMobile hopes to turbocharge its proposed direct-to-smartphone services with L-band spectrum from Ligado Networks