A Good Week for Commercial Space

Frontier Focus Newsletter

Your Comprehensive Guide to the New Space Economy

G. Pettit here, 

Welcome to the 4th edition of the Frontier Focus Newsletter, your top source for political, economic, and social developments in the New Space Economy and other emerging markets.

From breaking industry news and event announcements, to labor market reports and financial analysis, the glorious future has never been closer, nor a more entertaining read! Our mission is to collect and distill only the most newsworthy, exciting, and inspirational info for your weekly updates on the Second Space Age.

Join us on this journey into new frontiers.

This Week’s Next-Gen Newsflash

🚀 Firefly Aerospace has conducted the first test of its new Miranda engine, surprising many with its bright green flames

🇺🇸 The U.S House Science Committee has advanced a new commercial space bill, to the joy of eccentric billionaires everywhere

🔥 Satellite imagery has revealed an explosion at China’s secretive Jiuquan Spaceport

State of the New Space Economy

1) Palace in the Sky: China’s Tiangong Space Station has finally been completed, and the moment has been commemorated with a snazzy orbital shot of the entire structure.

With the first module arriving as early as 2021, the station has made swift progress over the past two years in becoming the second largest (and second only, period) crewed orbital platform at present.

Meaning “Heavenly Palace,” the station was designed as a direct competitor to the International Space Station, but in recent years has expressed interest in collaborating with the international community as a worthy contender in microgravity research, soliciting support from Europe and Russia for joint crewed missions.

2) Dragonfly Swatted: NASA’s ambitious Dragonfly helicopter mission has been officially postponed by one year amid budget uncertainty.

Hoping to follow in the successful flightpath of Mars’ Ingenuity helicopter, Dragonfly is planned to be the fist flying craft on a planet’s moo, the target being Titan, one of Saturn’s many moons.

Titan is of particular interest to NASA given its distinction as the only other planetary body in the solar system to host liquid on its surface, in the form of liquid methane seas that rival some of Earth’s own.

Unfortunately, Dragonfly’s entire program is under budgetary scrutiny, and to give itself more legroom in its negotiations with congress, NASA has decided to push the mission’s launch from 2027 to 2028, buying valuable time to pencil out a leaner budget.

3) Tired of more space regulation? Join the club: An aerospace industry group has claimed public opposition against a White House proposal to regulate space activities, claiming significant risk of strangling innovation and speed.

The Commercial Spaceflight Federation has sent an open letter to the House Science Committee (remember them from the story above?) condemning the a choice being weighed to split commercial space activities between the Department of Transportation and the Department of Commerce.

Going through one government agency must be bureaucratic enough, and the Federation’s argument is that doubling that does no one any favors.

Rising Space Creators to Follow

Twitter (X) - Andrew McCarthy (269.8K Followers) 🚀

Instagram - SpaceInfo Club (110K Followers) 🌎

LinkedIn - Trevor Mahlmann (31.6K Followers) 📸

TikTok - Zoliroastro (1.1M Followers) 🔭

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