In this week’s episode of Space Minds, host David Ariostor speaks with Al Tadros, Chief Technology Officer at Redwire, to explore the future of space infrastructure and commercialization.

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Despite the arrival of privately funded lunar mining companies, advancements in space resource legislation (such as the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015) and lunar prospecting missions such as LUPEX, one legal hurdle remains that will likely impact the pace of investment in future lunar mining activities: property rights on a celestial body. This issue […]

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United Launch Alliance is leaning more into reusability as it advances work on recovering the engine section of the Vulcan rocket and embarks on another project.

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SpaceX would get just 1% of the $625 million in rural broadband subsidies proposed by West Virginia, the third state in a row to give satellites only a marginal role in the federal government’s BEAD program.

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The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) current informed consent framework under 14 CFR §460.45 falls dangerously short of adequately warning space flight participants (SFP) about the true risks they face, particularly long-term health consequences that may not manifest until months or years after their journey. This regulatory gap threatens both SFP safety and industry credibility as […]

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Comments by NASA’s acting administrator have created uncertainty about the future of Earth science programs at the space agency.

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Two mission concepts are seeking funding to fly by and even collide with an asteroid that is making a very close flyby of Earth in 2029.

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One of the products Globalstar is pitching are “covert” tracker devices for military platforms

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Space has always been expensive. Historically, governments paid for it. In more recent times, billionaires have entered the arena. It isn’t surprising, then, that the development of the sector, being subject to the changing interests of national governments and the shifting interests of the uber-wealthy, has not been as fast as it could have been. […]

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SpinLaunch announced $30 million in new funding for the company to support its development of a broadband constellation.

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CAS Space delivered seven satellites to orbit Tuesday, including a pair of femtosats marking the company’s first launch of payloads for a Latin American client.

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The 2027 exercise will mark first time allies jointly develop scenarios instead of U.S. leading unilaterally

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Investment firm Platinum Equity plans to buy Anuvu after the in-flight connectivity specialist activated its first two small GEO satellites, capping a turnaround that began in 2021 when lenders took control of the company.

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Firefly Aerospace has signed an agreement to study potential launches of its Alpha rocket from a new Japanese commercial spaceport.

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WARSAW, Poland — Italian-Dutch company Revolv Space has been selected  to deliver six units of its flagship solar array drive assembly, marketed under the name of SARA, for Blue Canyon Technologies’ forthcoming cubesat mission.  The development comes as the European business is intensifying its international expansion efforts. Revolv Space said in a statement it was […]

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Major Gen. Paul Tedman has been the commander of United Kingdom Space Command since 2024. Recently, he made a stark observation: if war breaks out in Europe, it is “highly likely” that the first assault on Britain will take place not on land, sea or air, but in space. Others, like Gen. Chance Saltzman, Chief […]

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The Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory has a new affiliation with the U.S. Space Force that the lab says will open new opportunities to work on key space technologies.

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I recently attended the 40th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, an event that has ballooned from a niche government-industry gathering into a global spectacle that drew over 15,000 attendees in […]

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China conducted a pair of launches Sunday to separately deliver a new experimental satellite and a new batch of Guowang broadband satellites into orbit.

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Blue Origin is offering a version of Blue Ring as a Mars communications orbiter as it and other companies seek ways to provide commercial services for NASA at Mars.

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SpaceX will perform its next Starship/Super Heavy test flight Aug. 24 after completing an investigation into the failure of the previous mission and getting approval from the FAA.

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For more than six decades, the United States has pursued the promise of nuclear power in space — a technology capable of delivering energy where sunlight can’t reach and enabling missions beyond the limits of chemical propulsion. Yet since a brief reactor flight in 1965, no fission reactor has operated in orbit.

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The space age, which arguably began in 1957, was substantially mismanaged by many of the holders of the relevant technological evolution emerging in the latter half of the 20th century. We may be proceeding into a more definable future with the increasing participation in the Artemis Accords. We are moving toward the conquest of space […]

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China has conducted the first static fire of a seven-engine first-stage test article for the rocket that will carry its astronauts to the moon.

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