Even if Congress decides to reject the #WhiteHouse cuts, the agency may have a hard time getting employees back. #NASA employees with relevant skills can work for the growing number of #SpaceCompanies with higher salaries or could leave for non-space industries that see their skills as valuable, like companies engaged in @robotics https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/nasa-staff-departures-00444674

#SpacePolitics

The idea that some #bankers from Goldman and Bank of America will go into the guts of some of #Europe's largest institutional #SpaceCompanies and emerge with a lean, competitive entity seems far-fetched, to put it mildly 🙄. One might even expect that it would be more likely to observe #unicorns 🦄 dancing in a flame duct. https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/europe-has-the-worst-imaginable-idea-to-counter-spacexs-launch-dominance
Europe has the worst imaginable idea to counter SpaceX’s launch dominance

This plan, if it ever gets off the ground, seems destined to fail.

Ars Technica
Things are getting nasty between SpaceX and the FAA.

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The largest piece weighs 45 kilograms. It’s likely that more #SpaceJunk will fall to #Earth 🌎 as more private #SpaceCompanies launch more missions and satellites to space https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/it-aint-no-garbage-canadian-farmer-finds-chunks-of-space-debris-in-a-remote-part-of-saskatchewan/

#SpaceDebris

'It ain't no garbage.' Canadian farmer finds chunks of space debris

Barry Sawchuk and his son were tending to their farmland in Saskatchewan when they came across a big piece of space debris.

Astronomy Magazine

Report: South Australia Space Sector Strategy 2022 – 2030 (GSA 2022)

#AI #Artemis #Australia #Constellations #Gravity #Infrastructure #Investment #Launch #NASA #NationalSpaceStrategy #Satellites #SpaceCompanies #SpaceDomainAwareness #SpaceEcosystem #SpaceSector #SpaceSituationalAwareness #SpaceStrategy #Strategy #IndustryReportsPapersAndEBooks #SocioEconomic #SpaceEconomy

https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2024/04/26/report-south-australia-space-sector-strategy-2022-2030-gsa-2022/