Ill-Defined Space

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FYI, there will be no spacecraft analysis following this Launch Summary.

Three for the Price of One While working at Florida’s Space Coast during the past few days, it’s hard not to notice launches happening at literally all hours of the day.

It’s time for me to end my newsletter writing.

I’m a fan of cubesats.

This is another two-parter, with this part being part 1, which is a general scan of some of the communications and remote sensing satellites and services deployed during 2024.

Rocket Lab announced its new “flatellite” satellite a few weeks ago.

One of the latest of the many current administration antics is a focusing of the U.S. military on missile defense, called an “Iron”—then “Golden”--Dome (which is a softer metal–also, wouldn’t Orange be a more appropriate color?).

For anyone familiar with Mike Judge’s “OfficeSpace,” what I’m about to write will probably be familiar.[1] For readers who haven’t seen that movie, you should stop reading this right now and watch it.

This continues an analysis comparing Europe’s desire for space sovereignty versus what it is actually doing.

Europe…buddy…we gotta talk.

Part 1 of this analysis covered the overall market and deployed spacecraft payload shares in 2024.

This is an analysis of 2024 spacecraft deployments.

Part of this post is to have some fun with a few common industry claims.

This analyzes an aspect of orbital rocket launches in 2024, specifically, the upmass rocket categories launched from each nation.