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Goddard's Landsat 10 solicitation is now open as 80GSFC26R0015, past the draft stage that closed in June. Coded to space vehicle manufacturing, full and open, no set-aside, continuing the longest continuous record of land remote sensing from orbit.
DAF26BX05-DV509 asks small business to build and demonstrate high-voltage rad-hard semiconductor switching for electric propulsion and high-voltage spacecraft bus lines. The switch, not the thruster, is what caps high-power space systems. Responses due September 23. Tracked in Infrastructure.
Apollo was a geopolitical instrument, not a science program. The real reason we went explains why we stopped.
Water ice changes the economics. The Moon is no longer just a destination; it is a gas station.
From Saturn V to SLS to Starship. The physics hasn't changed; the engineering has.
Orion is not a modernized Apollo. It is a clean-sheet design that happens to use the same shape.
Five flights. From flyby to surface base. Every mission generates procurement across multiple verticals.
61 nations signed. Two didn't. The Accords shape who gets contracts and who gets left out.
The uncrewed shakedown that had to work before anyone could fly. What Orion's heat shield data showed and what it unlocked for every crewed mission after.
The Wolf Amendment. One law. No NASA cooperation with China. China built its own station. Now on its 23rd mission.
61 nations signed the Artemis Accords. Two did not. China is running the same coalition-building logic as NASA, for a different station, with different partners.
One Shenzhou 23 taikonaut is staying at Tiangong for a full year. You do not test a year in space unless you are planning missions where that data is load-bearing.
On April 1, 2026, NASA's Space Launch System lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying four astronauts on Artemis II, the first crewed mission to lunar orbit in over fifty years. This is not a replay of Apollo. Artemis is a sustained campaign to build permanent infrastructure on and around the Moon, establish resource extraction capabilities, and lay the economic foundation for deep-space operations.
Read the full series →Five primes share the Protected Tactical SATCOM ceiling. Eighteen months of task-order combat decide who actually builds the next generation. First launch 2028.
The biggest Western satcom merger in a decade closed July 2025. The Pentagon now buys commercial satcom from half the vendors it had a year ago.
Lockheed won the bus. Imager, sounder, ocean color, atmospheric composition, and lightning mapper are still open. Nine-figure instruments each.
Software-defined 400 to 1,000 kg satellites are taking the regional and military buys. K2 raised $250M at $3B in December.
Nuclear command and control, strategic missile warning, protected tactical satcom, weather, and broadcast. Tactical comms, tracking, and ISR have already migrated to LEO and MEO. Everything else has a reason to stay at 36,000 kilometers, and that reason is what every subsequent Earth-2 article will reference.
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