Satellites are swarming. NASA is rolling out its latest Moon rocket. And Amazon is aiming for LEO. Twin Chinese rockets, meanwhile, signal Beijing’s seriousness, just astronomers cradle baby black holes in their lenses. All of this, of course, wrapped around chat with Chiara Manfletti, CEO at Neuraspace.

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This week, space reminds us it’s as messy as it is magnificent: astronauts cut their mission short, Congress played defense for NASA, Artemis 2 is now gearing up for lunar orbit, satellites are relighting our skies, and China is shaking things up with a commercial twist.

In this Open Space Report, LEO grows tighter, near-misses rise, and orbital imagery gets razor-sharp. Meanwhile, NASA stakes its claim on space data, JWST uncovers a gargantuan black hole, SpaceX dazzles the Southwest sky, and Celestis prepares a voyage around the Sun. 

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A weekly rundown of the most important developments in space; covering commercial activity, national security, geopolitics, and exploration—breaking down what happened, why it matters, and what’s coming next.

With an Indian spacecraft becoming the first to land on the lunar South Pole, Intuitive Machines President and CEO Steve Altemus is pressing his team to make the first ever commercial landing there in November, in a space race that is clearly heating up. 

Russia's first lunar lander in 47 years has spun out of control and crashed into the moon, highlighting not only Roscomos’ mounting problems, but also just how hard it is to land on the moon ... especially on the lunar south pole.

A conversation with Dr. Nadia Maarouf, a clinical scientist working at the Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert, about new vaccines that could help ward off space-induced heart problems in astronauts, as well as those of humans back here on Earth.   

A conversation with Michelle Munk, NASA’s Acting Chief Architect for the Space Technology Mission Directorate, on everything from rovers and extraterrestial microbiology to building a sustainable human presence on the Red Planet.

In a bold move that marked the dawn of a new military era, the U.S. Space Force was created. But after a recent Pentagon squabble with SpaceX over satellite services in Ukraine, America’s growing reliance on the private sector in space has raised questions over how much influence and leverage the commercial sector should have on U.S. foreign policy.