Hacker News with Generative AI: Space Industry

The reasons SpaceX won nearly all recent military launch contracts (arstechnica.com)
In the last week, the US Space Force awarded SpaceX a $5.9 billion deal to make Elon Musk's space company the Pentagon's leading launch provider, and then it assigned the vast majority of this year's most lucrative launch contracts to SpaceX.

SpaceX, Military, Government Contracts, Space Industry

13 points by teleforce 15 days ago | 8 comments

Under Trump and Musk, billionaires wield influence over US national security (theguardian.com)
Just days before Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Blue Origin, the space company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its New Glenn rocket, named for John Glenn, the Mercury astronaut who was the first American to orbit the Earth.

Politics, Billionaires, National Security, Space Industry

12 points by leotravis10 19 days ago | 0 comments

Blue Origin Cuts 10% of Its Employees (nytimes.com)
Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, is laying off roughly 10 percent of its work force, according to an email that was sent to staff on Thursday and that was viewed by The New York Times.

Space Industry, Layoffs, Business, Jeff Bezos

6 points by lxm 71 days ago | 1 comments

Elon Musk will not receive highest-level government security clearance – reports (theguardian.com)
The space entrepreneur Elon Musk is unlikely to receive government security clearances if he so applied, even as his SpaceX launch company blasts military and spy agency payloads into orbit, according to a report on Monday.

Elon Musk, Security Clearance, Government, Space Industry, SpaceX

10 points by mitchbob 130 days ago | 0 comments

SpaceX became too big to fail for US national security (vox.com)
How Musk’s SpaceX became too big to fail for US national security.

SpaceX, National Security, Elon Musk, US Government, Space Industry

7 points by rntn 174 days ago | 0 comments

Astronomers have warned against colonial practices in the space industry (theunconventionalgardener.com)
The past decade has seen a rapid expansion of the commercial space industry.

Space Exploration, Space Industry, Ethics

6 points by speckx 227 days ago | 1 comments

Does anyone remember Blue Origin? What are they even doing for a decade? (ycombinator.com)

Space Exploration, Blue Origin, Business, Space Industry

8 points by user90131313 294 days ago | 7 comments

Starlink's disruption of the space industry (thespacereview.com)

Space Industry, Disruption, Starlink

178 points by mlindner 332 days ago | 258 comments