China Caught a Booster: The U.S. Caught a Warning
China just became the second nation to recover an orbital-class booster. Meanwhile, in the U.S., three different audits expose a congested, cash-starved spaceport network tangled in regulation and running on the fumes of Apollo-era infrastructure. So while the U.S. has documented its physical and administrative launch problems in exhaustive, heavily footnoted detail, China just pushed up the deadline to solve them.
Kimberly Siversen Burke
2 days ago
Canada’s MDA Space Secures its U.S. Beachhead with Blue Canyon Buyout
MDA Space's $620M acquisition of Blue Canyon Technologies turns a niche spacecraft supplier into a strategic lever. BCT brings flight-proven buses and components, a security-cleared U.S. manufacturing base, and a foothold in programs spanning lunar exploration and missile defense. Paired with MDA's robotics franchise, the deal stretches the company across a larger share of the space value chain just as NASA and the Pentagon ramp spending on lunar infrastructure and proliferat
Kimberly Siversen Burke
Jun 23