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submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk's SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help upgrade the FAA's national airspace system.

submitted 20 hours ago • 144 comments

NASA is not requiring any individual employee to respond to Musk's weekend email telling govt employees to send 5 bullet points explaining what they did last week. NASA will respond for all. NASA statement:

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Spoke with Pam Melroy, NASA's former deputy administrator, about the claim that the agency was offered an earlier return of Butch and Suni from the International Space Station: “An offer to bring the crew home early, it never came to headquarters." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Guidance to NASA employees is trickling in on how to respond to the recent DOGE-driven email asking for what people accomplished last week. The general theme: wait to respond, with further agency-wide guidance expected Monday www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Weird, wonder why this happened? Couldn’t have possibly had anything to do with any tweets this week…

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I wrote this for me, and also maybe for you? I hope it helps: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/feel...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

“Sorry I can’t talk, I’m in the middle of breaking news” is apparently the tag line of 2025

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I feel like I can hear faint screaming and yelling coming from the other social media site

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NASA's Jim Free, a key official who has defended the agency's moon program, is leaving NASA on Saturday, and the CFO, CIO and top procurement official at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center had their retirements announced internally yesterday. www.reuters.com/world/us/key...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

NASA is working to get a blanket waiver protecting its probationary employees from layoffs as agencies across the government grapple with headcount reductions www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Score for team Austin!

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Changes in NASA's workforce, by year, since 1959. Today will mark the largest involuntary reduction in staffing since the end of Apollo. The difference is that, right now, NASA is trying to spin up a Moon program instead of end one.

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“It feels like a betrayal by NASA....It’s inefficient, it’s wasteful, and it’s also just messed up.” This is how scientists inside and outside the agency are feelings about the cuts to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Words by me: 🧪

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

It's 10 percent cuts across the board

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

In the midst of everything else going on, Blue Origin employees are bracing for layoffs this morning www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Meanwhile, Boeing claims it's cutting fewer than 200 jobs on its SLS program now after its Friday all hands, citing meetings with NASA leadership www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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I'm in DC today for the CSF/FAA conference, where the question on everyone's mind is: what's going to happen with NASA's Artemis program? And is SLS a goner? Well we don't know for sure yet, but here's why changing the program will be hard work www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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NASA is out with an official update on the Crew-10 launch and Crew-9 return. Brace yourself for lots of attention on space in March when Butch and Suni come home blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcr...

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New special report: China is swiftly forging space ties with African nations, and its investments in satellites and infrastructure are winning friends – and expanding its eyes on the skies – as America slashes help for developing countries. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Bittersweet news today -- Michael has been a great reporter and friend to share the space beat with. Best of luck on your new adventure!

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Troy Meink, a top official at the NRO and Trump's Air Force nominee, arranged a lucrative contract solicitation for a spy satellite network in way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, sparking complaints and an IG probe, per 7 people familiar with the contract. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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At an all hands meeting this afternoon, Boeing told employees it expects to lay off up to 400 employees on the SLS program

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Also on the trend of conflicts of interest...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Rep. Valerie Foushee penned a letter to NASA's acting administrator expressing concerns about DOGE potentially reaching the space agency and Musk's conflicts of interest as a NASA contractor

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

While you were sleeping, Yuri Borisov is out at Roscosmos

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I know that many have pointed out the potential for conflicts of interest with DOGE and its leader, but now we're getting to agencies that do more direct business with EM's companies (operating satellites launched by SpaceX), so I'm just curious if that means anything at all cue nervous laughter

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder that your friendly neighborhood journalist is also on Signal. It’s a chaotic time right now, but transparency and information can be helpful for navigating the path forward. Plus I’m always around to listen

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Does Musk have the authority to do this? Doesn’t matter. As we know from previous Musk experience, the real question is: who will stop him? www.theverge.com/politics/605...

submitted 21 days ago • 31 comments

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

submitted 26 days ago • 269 comments

One of Russia's richest men held a stake in Elon Musk-led SpaceX via a trust even after he was sanctioned by the US, exposing gaps in the enforcement of rules intended to target elites who enable Kremlin policies, people said. -- @KatrinaManson www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

It's week two. Buckle up. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

We definitely have our work cut out for us this year

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg expects a "few" M&A sales this year, with potential deals in "advanced stages." "Don't think of this as major structural redesign of the corporation, but I do think there's places we can streamline." "Not in a hurry" to name a new head of the defense & space unit.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

a reminder that in his first term he said the US would put astronauts on the Moon in 2024 and we are still years away

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

Well, this was not how I expected the launch-a-palooza week to end www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Wow reported sighting of Starship debris

submitted 39 days ago • 7 comments

Alright. One more big launch. Starship. Flight seven. We can make it through this. www.spacex.com/launches/mis...

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Somehow, it's only Thursday and we've still got a major test launch left to go

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

At long last, Blue Origin's New Glenn made it to orbit -- and on the first try too. We didn't get a booster landing, but that was always icing on the cake www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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