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Launch Economics
SpaceX's 33rd booster landing and the compounding cost curve
SpaceX just landed a booster for the 33rd time. For decades, the industry didn't think reuse was worth the trade-off at all.
Mar 10, 2026 · 62,000+ impressions
Orbital Spectrum
Amazon's $9B regulatory insurance policy: the Globalstar spectrum play
Amazon, Apple, and SpaceX are converging on the same asset. It can't be built, duplicated, or manufactured at any price.
Apr 8, 2026 · 46,000+ impressions
Propulsion & Engineering Physics
Starship's Artemis bet: the cryogenic fuel problem is the engineering problem
SpaceX is now NASA's sole architecture for the lunar landing. But the hardest engineering problem isn't the rocket.
Mar 30, 2026 · 26,000+ impressions
Propulsion & Engineering Physics
Canada's three propulsion bets: turbopump, hybrid, and scale
$105M, three companies, three different propulsion architectures. Canada's sovereign launch stack is coming online.
Mar 19, 2026 · 15,000+ impressions
Canadian Orbital Economy
Spaceport Nova Scotia: what a $200M sovereign launch pad actually buys
At ignition, rocket exhaust exceeds Mach 1 and generates 200 dB. Here's what it costs to build a pad that survives it.
Mar 16, 2026 · 15,000+ impressions
Canadian Orbital Economy
Canadarm to Artemis II: build the hardware, earn the seat
The first non-American to travel beyond low Earth orbit is Canadian. That seat exists because of a robotic arm built in Brampton.
Apr 1, 2026 · 13,000+ impressions
Orbital Spectrum
AST SpaceMobile: why 850 MHz was the only choice
AT&T and Verizon gave AST SpaceMobile access to 850 MHz. That wasn't a business decision — it was pure physics.
Mar 12, 2026 · 4,000+ impressions
Picks-and-Shovels
MDA Midnight: the infrastructure to service 13,000+ satellites already in orbit
SpaceX, Amazon, and China are racing to fill LEO with tens of thousands of satellites. But what happens to them once they're up there?
Apr 13, 2026 · 3,000+ impressions
Propulsion & Engineering Physics
The Artemis II free-return trajectory: when failure is the default path home
Four astronauts flew behind the Moon yesterday. If every system failed, they'd still come home — because the flight path itself guarantees it.
Apr 6, 2026 · 1,000+ impressions
Canadian Orbital Economy
MDA Space's narrative shift: from constellation builder to national defense champion
MDA's pipeline doubled from $20B to $40B in a single quarter. The narrative shift on the call mattered more than the financials.
Mar 5, 2026 · 1,000+ impressions