Space

Launch, satellites, orbital infrastructure and the companies building them.

Launch cadence, orbital congestion, ground segment and the economics underneath. Written for people who want the detail, not the countdown.

Pad turnaround times have fallen faster than the workforce supporting them has grown.

13 September 2026

Launch cadence has doubled in three years. The ground crews have not

Pad turnaround is no longer the constraint on how often rockets fly. The people who inspect, fuel and range-safety them are.

By Priya Raghunathan 2 min read

Most conjunction warnings resolve without action, but each one consumes analyst time.

11 September 2026

Orbital congestion is now a scheduling problem, not a collision problem

Conjunction warnings have become routine enough that the operational cost is manoeuvre planning and lost mission time rather than any realistic risk of impact.

By Nils Brandt 2 min read

Antenna scheduling and data handling costs scale with the constellation, unlike the spacecraft.

9 September 2026

The ground segment is where most space businesses actually fail

Spacecraft get the funding and the attention. Antenna time, data pipelines and the boring middle layer are where the operating margin disappears.

By Marta Halloran 2 min read

Each controlled reentry requires a temporary airspace reservation along the debris footprint.

7 September 2026

Reentry corridors are getting crowded and nobody owns the schedule

Controlled deorbits now intersect commercial air routes often enough that airspace closures are a recurring cost, coordinated case by case.

By Tom Okafor 2 min read