I’m Anthony Colangelo.

I’m not surprised to see rising prices—after all, you don’t have to outrun the bear, just the ones you’re running alongside.

Certainly sounds like NASA’s plans have changed since their EM-2 payload RFI went out back in October.

A few days after I linked to Altius’ SBIR Phase II win, this post on Altius’ blog went up. It’s a fantastic read, and really worth your time.

Docking standards are convoluted.

This is the true coming-of-age moment for ULA. Fight for independence and a surely-more-exciting future, or take the “safe” government job like your parents think you should. Look, they already got you in the door because of their friends that work there. You’re practically a shoo-in.

Explorer is something that seems so simple and obvious in hindsight, but only became possible once a few things came together in the right way: the rise of small satellites, the increase of launch availability, and easy distribution on the web, to name a few.

Great rundown of Starliner progress, complete with some talk about RD-180 certification.

Going once for a wonderful set of lawsuit-laden intellectual property! Going twice!

Jake of the WeMartians podcast explores the three remaining candidate landing sites for the Mars 2020 rover. It’s really worth a listen, whether you know about the sites already or not.

NASA announced the selection of 133 proposals for Phase II of the SBIR program. One of the more exciting proposals selected is from Altius Space Machines, titled “Lightweight, High-Flow, Low Connection-Force, In-Space Cryogenic Propellant Coupling”.