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Research, due diligence and forecasting on the companies, technologies and markets building beyond Earth.
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Neutron's first flight is the key transition from development program to operational launch system. A 2026 liftoff would validate Rocket Lab's ability to execute the remaining qualification and integration campaign within its current Q4 2026 target and would mark the company's entry into the medium-lift launch market.
Starship has demonstrated increasingly controlled atmospheric reentry, but surviving reentry is not the same as achieving rapid, low-maintenance reuse. This paper examines Starship's heat shield, the flight-test evidence through Flight 13, Shuttle-era lessons, non-TPS bottlenecks and the economics required for aircraft-like operations.
Read research →Nvidia's relationship with Elon Musk's AI operation began in a Memphis data center. SpaceX now plans to extend that computing ecosystem into orbit on its first Starmind satellites.
SpaceX will build its largest facility ever on 125,000 acres of Gulf Coast marsh: ten launch pads, dedicated propellant production and power, and a stated $100 billion investment, sited between its Texas and Florida operations.
NSPM-17, signed August 20, directs federal agencies to ready U.S. ranges, airspace, reentry sites and spectrum for more than 1,000 launches and reentries a year by 2030.
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