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SpaceX tracker, launches, and the new space race.
Astrobotic
Lunar landers, rovers, and Moon delivery services
China Tianwen Program
China's Mars orbiter, rover, and sample-return missions
ESA ExoMars
Europe's Trace Gas Orbiter and Rosalind Franklin rover
Intuitive Machines
Commercial lunar landers and cislunar infrastructure
NASA Mars Exploration Program
NASA's portal for active Mars rovers, orbiters, and science
Perseverance Rover
NASA's astrobiology rover caching samples in Jezero Crater
NASA Artemis
Returning humans to the Moon and on to Mars
SpaceX Starship
Fully reusable super-heavy launch system
📰 From the Desk
SpaceX Is About to Price the Biggest IPO in History
At a $1.75 trillion valuation and up to $75 billion raised, SpaceX's June listing dwarfs Saudi Aramco's record — and asks public markets to price a rocket company on a satellite-internet bet that loses money everywhere but orbit.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-09 · 6 min read
Low Orbit Is the New Land Grab
Starlink already owns most of the sky. Amazon's Kuiper is finally launching, direct-to-cell is rewiring the phone in your pocket, and the economics of putting thousands of satellites overhead have become a geopolitical contest no government fully controls.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-04 · 6 min read
The Year Starship Has to Land Itself
SpaceX's biggest rocket is past the proof-of-concept era and into the part that actually matters: catching boosters, refurbishing ships, and turning a sci-fi cost curve into a launch-market fact.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-04 · 7 min read
Mars Without a Plan: How America Lost the Sample Race and China Didn't
NASA's Mars Sample Return is dead, SpaceX pushed its timeline back by a decade, and Beijing is quietly building the spacecraft that will actually bring Martian dirt home.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-03 · 5 min read
NASA Reached the Moon, Then Cut Its Own Budget by 25%
Artemis II flew past the Moon for the first crewed lunar approach since Apollo 17 — and weeks later the White House proposed gutting the agency that did it. The contradiction is the whole story.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-29 · 5 min read
The Year Orbit Became a Conveyor Belt
SpaceX is chasing 145 Falcon 9 flights while Blue Origin re-flies a booster and Rocket Lab readies Neutron — cadence, not spectacle, is now the metric that matters.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-28 · 5 min read
The Tug Boats of Orbit Just Got a $4.3 Billion Bet
While the rest of tech chases autonomous agents and humanoid robots, the hottest new-space startups are quietly winning by building the unglamorous plumbing of orbit — and hiring humans to do it.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-24 · 5 min read
The Sky Learned to Think Before It Sends
Earth observation's 2026 inflection is not sharper pixels — it's satellites that decide what matters in orbit and beam down answers, not images.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-19 · 5 min readNo discussions yet — start the first one.