SpaceX’s plan to get NASA astronauts on the moon involves refilling Starship with fuel in space. Here’s how propellant transfer would work.
Why valves are a spacecraft engineer’s worst nightmare
Follow the space industry long enough and you’ll notice that an outsized number of the problems that cause catastrophic failures of satellites or launch vehicles can be traced […]
D-Orbit raises $110M to reach new heights in space logistics services
Logistics has become the cornerstone of how so much works on earth — we may order things online, but ultimately we need to get products and ourselves from […]
United Launch Alliance and Astrobotic launches, Countdown Capital shutdown
Hello and welcome back to Max Q. By the time you read this, United Launch Alliance will have hopefully launched its Vulcan Centaur rocket for the first time, […]
Rocket Lab leverages vertical integration to land $515M military satellite contract
The Space Development Agency is the mystery customer behind Rocket Lab’s up-to $515 million, 18-satellite order announced in late December, the two firms announced today. In a regulatory […]