I’m Anthony Colangelo.

HTV-7 arrived this morning, carrying with it a hugely-under-appreciated piece of hardware.

Northrop Grumman and Boeing both have previously denied that they were submitting a bid for GPS IIIF, leaving Lockheed Martin as the only known bidder. But apparently, there was another response.

Typically, we see ULA chosen because the customer needs to know they can hit a specific timeline. In this case, SpaceX was chosen because ispace is confident SpaceX will be flying near where they need to go, sometime around when they need to go.

There’s some weird, gross politicking happening over in Israel around IAI lately.

Titan is, by far, the second coolest planetary body in the solar system and I can’t wait to see Dragonfly explore it in all its glory. It better get picked!

We haven’t heard from this little explorer yet, but it’s sitting pretty on its way into Perseverance Valley. Check out this beautiful shot of Opportunity from the HiRISE camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and then some landscape perspective from the incredible Seán Doran.

Still has the vibe of a solution in search of a problem, but I continually like the theory that Stratolaunch is the Glomar Explorer of aerospace.

That’s a big step for a critically-important piece of technology. Phasor says it will be shipping its first antenna later this year or early next, so we’ll hear more on this front soon.

Signing a multiple-launch agreement covering a decade is less meaningful than a contract for a _specific_ Ariane 6 launch, but noteworthy nonetheless.

Viasat has booked launches on Ariane 5 and Falcon Heavy for Viasat-3, and has an option for an additional Falcon Heavy launch. They’re taking the spread-the-work-around path for their deployment, rather than the all-in approach that Iridium took with Iridium-NEXT.

My first thought was that this could be early work on a constellation of infrared surveillance satellites.

My first thought was that this could be early work on a constellation of infrared surveillance satellites.

It seems incredibly hopeful, but if SLS were able to fly with this sort of cadence, it would certainly make the conversation around it interesting again.

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