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Blue Origin is a private aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos that builds orbital and suborbital rockets, engines, and spacecraft, rivaling SpaceX.
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NASA picked a Planetary Science Institute team to test whether the Moon's Marius Hills pit opens into a lava tube, with a commercial lander and rover. PSI says such a cave could one day shelter astronauts from radiation and extreme temperature swings.
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Florida Tech's John Kiss and colleagues found surface tension slowed water at one-sixth of Earth's gravity, simulated on a suborbital flight. Kiss says lunar plant watering may need its own design, a view that so far rests on one brief test of liquids in containers.
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Anatolii Papulov of NewOrbit says satellite launch lead times have reached 30 to 36 months, up from about 12 a year ago. The figure is one start-up's experience, though Quilty Space analyst Caleb Henry also calls the shortage a crisis with several causes besides Falcon 9.
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Blue Origin's first outside raise reached $10 billion at a $140 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported, with Bezos putting in $2 billion. About $8 billion of outside money is pricing a company whose rocket has not flown since a May pad explosion.
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SpaceX flew Starship to orbit for the first time on September 28, deploying 26 Starlink V3 satellites despite one of the upper stage's six engines going out at liftoff. The flight moves the vehicle closer to the operational heavy-lift launcher NASA and SpaceX are counting on.
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SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time on September 28 and deployed 26 working Starlink V3 satellites, each built to add 1 Tbps of capacity. Buyers can count on that capacity this quarter, while teams hoping to book Starship for their own payloads have one partial orbital flight to judge it by.
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Google launches its first Project Suncatcher satellite on October 1 with four TPUs on about 1kW of solar, roughly one data center server's worth of compute. It can show whether the chips stay cool in orbit, but the laser links any capacity case needs wait for a two-satellite test in 2027.
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Google's MVP satellite takes four TPUs and about 1 kW of solar power into orbit to test whether AI chips survive radiation and shed their own heat. Its results will show whether rebooting away bit flips and cooling through a radiator can carry into the constellations Google has already sketched.
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China's lunar south pole mission loses its 2026 window to a storm forecast to clear in days. The notice names no cause, and the recovery may not come until February.
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Google flies one server's worth of TPUs on 1 kilowatt of solar power on Oct. 1, its first hardware test for orbital AI data centers. The flight tests chip survival and cooling while SpaceX's and Blue Origin's far larger constellations still wait on FCC review.
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The Denver startup left stealth with $8 million and a factory-built supercritical CO2 block that sits at a simple-cycle turbine's exhaust. Its case to operators is that the turbine itself needs no permit work.
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Gulf space money is moving off government budget lines and onto corporate balance sheets, where Space42's venture with Viasat now sits. KPMG's projection to 2034 is for slower growth than the decade behind it.
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EU and French leaders used a Paris summit on 10 September to call for sovereign launch and crew capability. The parts actually under construction are a 348-satellite constellation, German defence budgets and a first orbital launch from Norwegian soil.
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About €20bn and 51 deals were announced at the Paris space summit, on top of an ESA budget member states had already approved. The dates suppliers will be judged against came from Macron's address, not from a contract.
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Delegations from about 120 countries came to Paris to talk business, with SpaceX and Blue Origin absent. What Europe wants to own is the imaging and connectivity it currently buys from American firms.
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Three FCC filings add 18 antennas across Florida, Minnesota and Texas, about one percent of the more than 300 ground stations Amazon says its 3,232-satellite constellation needs, and the pace of that queue is what a buyer is really buying.
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The second flight of Spectrum put satellites into orbit from northern Norway, four days before Macron's sovereignty summit in Paris. For anyone shopping non-US small lift, the constraint is now a manifest described as full to 2028.
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A Sandia-led team pulled the energy of New Glenn's May 29 hotfire explosion out of infrasound recorded as far away as northeast Texas, putting the blast at an estimated 0.131 kilotons of TNT equivalent using infrasound data alone.
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Amazon walked away from Project Blue after the city council refused it a connection to municipal utilities. The orbital data center plans now sitting with regulators read better as a price tag on permitting delay than as an escape from it.
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The nonprofit's founders also run Starcloud, and no one now alive can check the arrival, so the auditable claim is whether a 100-to-200-kilogram spacecraft and a launch contract exist by 2029, and what that kilogram of payload turns out to be.
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