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Space
- A Satellite Gateway That Reshapes Its Own Return Link as Demand Rises and Falls
- Boeing’s New Seeker Fixes Its Cameras in Place and Rolls the Missile to Track
- Squeezing more out of the satellite link by redistributing the bandwidth nobody used
- What Is NASA's CLPS Program? How Commercial Lunar Payload Services Buys Rides to the Moon
- What Is NASA's Artemis Program? The Campaign to Return Humans to the Moon, Explained
- What Is an FAA Experimental Permit? The Part 437 Authorization for Reusable Suborbital Test Flights
- How Satellite Spectrum and Orbital-Slot Coordination Works: The ITU Filing Behind an FCC License
- What Is an FCC NGSO Processing Round? How Competing Satellite Constellations Get Licensed
- How NOAA Licenses Commercial Satellite Imaging: The Three-Tier System Under 15 CFR 960
- The FCC's 5-Year Deorbit Rule, Explained: What 14 CFR 25.283 Requires of LEO Satellites
- What Is a Part 450 Launch License? The FAA Rule That Authorizes a Commercial Rocket to Fly
- JWST Transits of WASP-121 b Show Light Curves Shaped by the Planet's Own Rotation
- Two Eccentric Warm Jupiters, TOI-2147 b and TOI-6019 b, Confirmed With TESS and MaHPS
- Measuring a film while you etch it: a published in-line metrology instrument
- The FAA Quietly Withdrew Its Proposed 25-Year Orbital-Debris Disposal Rule
- The FAA Is Now Charging Commercial Space Launch and Reentry Operators User Fees
- TESS's First Five-Year Transit-Timing Catalog Finds a Resonance Surprise
- Three Tiny Near-Earth Asteroids Are Spinning in Under a Minute, Tricolor Video Confirms
- Could Enceladus Make Its Own Hydrogen by Grinding Rock? A New Model Says Maybe
- A New Paper Argues Uranus and Neptune Are Magma-Ocean Giants, Not Ice Giants
- FCC Sets the Rules for Picking a Space Launch Frequency Coordinator
- FAA Clarifies How Commercial Launches From Federal Ranges Can Show Equivalent Safety
- A Presidential Directive Reframes Commercial Space Regulation as a Competition Tool
- FAA Withdraws Its Proposed 25-Year Rule for Launch Upper Stages
- FCC Retires 1990s EPFD Limits in New Satellite-Broadband Sharing Rule
- FCC's 'Licensing Assembly Line' Plan Aims to Speed Satellite Approvals
Space & Defense
- What Rocket Lab's Filings Actually Say About the New Launch Economy
- Rocket Lab Went From $245M to $602M in Two Years — The Filings Show How
- Neutron: The Rocket Rocket Lab Keeps Warning You About in Its Own Filings
- AST SpaceMobile's Cash Went From $86M to $3 Billion — That's the Whole Strategy
- How 'Direct-to-Cell' Satellites Actually Work, Read Through AST's Filings
- Why Modern Constellations Use Phased Arrays Instead of Dishes
- Golden Dome, Decoded: The Defense Primes and the Disclosures Behind Missile Defense's Reboot
- What 'Hypersonics Programs' in Defense Filings Actually Tell You
- How Planet Labs Sells the Sky: The Earth-Observation Business Model, Explained
- Backlog vs. Revenue: How to Actually Read a Defense and Space Filing
- Constellation Economics: Why Many Small Satellites Beat a Few Big Ones
- Two Kinds of Space Company: How Defense Primes and New-Space Read in Their Filings
- Patent of the Week: A Hall Thruster That Cancels the Torque It Creates
- Why Precise Positioning From LEO Is Harder Than It Looks
- The 'Last Mile' of Orbit Is Becoming Its Own Business — A Patent Shows How
- Patent of the Week: MDA's SAR Patent and the All-Weather Imaging Edge
- Zoom Out: Keeping a Constellation Alive Is Becoming the Real Engineering Problem
- The Docket: Who Decides What a Satellite Looks At — and Who Knows
- Patent of the Week: Many Spacecraft, One Goal — Multi-Agent Proximity Ops
- Missile Defense, Decoded: Three Primes, Three Patents, One Layered Problem
- Patent of the Week: A Soft Robot That Crawls Across a Spacecraft to Inspect It
- Private & Quiet: Reading Blue Origin Through a High-Speed Control-Surface Patent
- Patent of the Week: The Bandwidth Bottleneck and MIT's Optical-Downlink Answer
- How a Satellite Aims: Pointing Accuracy, Explained Through a Real Patent
- Viasat's Flexible-Capacity Patent Is an Argument Against Fixed Beams
- SpaceX's One-Axis Antenna Trick: Why a Starlink Dish Steers in a Single Dimension
- How a Satellite Becomes a Lego Set: The Array-Architecture Idea
- Running a Fleet, Not a Satellite: Inside Spire's Command-and-Control Patent
- Who Decides What an Imaging Constellation Looks At? A January 2020 Patent Answers
- A Small-Rocket Engine Patent and the Cooling Problem Nobody Photographs
- Many Eyes, One Picture: A Multistatic-Radar Constellation Patent
- Northrop's Phased-Array Patent and the Defense Side of Beam Steering
- Lockheed's Fault-Tolerant Propulsion Patent: Designing for the Engine That Fails
- Flexible Beamforming, Explained: How a Satellite Reshapes Its Own Coverage
- Steering a Satellite With Its Own Magnetism: A 2021 Residual-Dipole Patent
- Spacecraft-as-a-Service, Patented: Inside Loft Orbital's 2021 Grant
- Spinning Your Way to Steady: The Rotating-Mass Attitude-Control Idea
- The Grant Lands: SpaceX's Uni-Dimensional Steering Patent Issues in 2022
- One Array, Two Jobs: Lockheed's Combined Cross-Link and Comms Patent
- Staging, but for Ion Engines: MIT's 2022 Electric-Propulsion Patent
- Letting the Satellite Drive Itself Up: Boeing's Electric Orbit-Raising Patent
- Built to Catch Other Satellites: Astroscale's In-Orbit Servicing Patent
- The Seal That Lets a Rocket Steer: Blue Origin's Gimbal-Seal Patent
- Landing in the Water on Purpose: ULA's Amphibious Recovery Patent
- A Mesh in the Sky: Ciena's Express Inter-Satellite Optical Networking Patent
- GPS From Low Orbit: Xona's LEO Positioning Patents and the PNT-Resilience Push
- Folding the Plumbing Into the Chamber: A Staged-Combustion Engine Patent
- Quality of Service, in Orbit: Lockheed's NGSO Data-Flow Patent
- Designing a Swarm: The CubeSat Constellation-Design Framework Patent
- Keeping the Beam Honest: Amazon's Phased-Array Calibration Patent
- One Trigger, Many Motors: Raytheon's Multi-Rocket-Motor Initiation Patent
- Bolting a Booster to the Pad: Blue Origin's Stud-Propelling Landing Patent
- Shaping the Beam Edge: AST's Adaptive-Taper Beamforming Patent
- Helping the Dish Find the Sky: SpaceX's Satellite-Visibility Patent
- Attitude Control You Can Snap Together: Veoware's Modular ADCS Patent
- Letting Go Cleanly: Maxar's Multi-Spacecraft Deployment Patent
- More Modems Than Antennas: A 2024 Phased-Array Multiplexing Patent
- Chasing Microseconds in Orbit: Intel's Ultra-Low-Latency Inter-Satellite Link Patent
- An Exotic Engine, Patented: Lockheed's Leptonic-Source Plasma Propulsion
- Tilt to See More Sky: SpaceX's Tilted Ground-Antenna Patent
- Orbit and Attitude in One Loop: Mitsubishi's Coupled-Control Patent
- The Fuel Question Nobody Asks: Propellant Management Across a Whole Constellation
- What Lockheed's New 10-K Means by 'Backlog' — and Why $147 Billion Isn't Cash in the Bank
- Reading RTX's First Full Annual Report: How the Merged Company Splits Its Defense and Space Work
- How a Defense Prime's Quarterly Report Defines Backlog — Read From Lockheed's Latest 10-Q
- Northrop's 10-K Lists Space First Among Its Capabilities — Here's What That Sentence Signals
- Rocket Lab's First SEC Filing Explains the Bet: Electron Today, Neutron Tomorrow
- AST SpaceMobile's S-1 Explains 'Satellite-to-Cellular' — and Why BlueWalker 1 Came First
- Why Northrop's 10-K Names Both Hypersonics and Counter-Hypersonics — A Reader's Guide
- RTX's Defense Engine, Read From the 10-K: Where Intelligence & Space Ends and Missiles & Defense Begins
- How Planet Labs Sells Pictures of Earth, According to Its First Annual Reports' Revenue Model
- AST SpaceMobile's 2023 Prospectus: BlueWalker 3 Is Up, and the Filing Is Raising More Money
- Rocket Lab's 10-K Lists Neutron as a Risk Factor — Here's Why That's Exactly Right
- Lockheed's 2024 10-K Says Backlog Rose — On Programs That Aren't Space. Here's the Nuance