Just days after a successful launch-pad rehearsal, NASA's chief says an issue involving a helium pressurization system will rule out launching the rocket for the #Artemis 2 round-the-moon mission in March. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/helium-problem-nasa-delay-artemis-2-launch-rollback/ #NASA #Moon #Space

#NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman responds to an independent panel's report on 2024's troubled #Starliner mission by putting the event in the agency's most serious category of anomalies - and declaring that astronauts won't ride on Starliners until corrective actions are taken. The report faults NASA as well as #Boeing ... https://cosmiclog.com/2026/02/19/nasa-blames-itself-and-boeing-for-starliner-screw-ups/ #Space #ISS

#NASA runs through a mostly trouble-free rehearsal for the launch of its #Artemis2 mission, which aims to send astronauts around the #moon for the first time since 1972. Liftoff could come as early as March 6. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/nasa-smooth-rehearsal-artemis-2-moon-launch/ #Space #Artemis #SLS #Orion

Amazon Web Services has launched two credit programs worth up to $100 million to help federal agencies use cloud services and AI for applications ranging from battle management to quantum computing. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/aws-accelerator-initiatives-100m-credits-federal-agencies/ #Tech

When we scheduled our #FictionScience podcast with evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon to talk about his book, "Becoming Martian," we didn't know that #ElonMusk would be doing his strategic pivot from a city on #Mars to a city on the #moon. But that made the podcast even more timely. Hope you enjoy listening to our conversation! https://cosmiclog.com/2026/02/17/occupy-mars-or-the-moon-its-time-for-a-reality-check/ #space

#Amazon still has to get its first-generation #Leo #satellite #broadband network into full operation, but it's already won the OK from regulators to move on to the second-generation satellites (and end up putting 7,700 satellites in low Earth orbit). https://www.geekwire.com/2026/fcc-amazon-leo-gen2-broadband-coverage-polar/ #FCC #Space

#StokeSpace has boosted its Series D financing round to $860 million, with the newly announced $350 million going toward getting the Seattle-area startup's Florida launch pad activated and expanding production capacity for Stoke's fully reusable rockets. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/stoke-space-350m-added-funding/ #Space #Nova

Seattle-based #Teague started out designing Texaco service stations - but now it's helping its partners create the look and feel of commercial space stations including #Starlab and #OrbitalReef. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/design-space-station-teague/ #Space #Design

Even before the first Otter satellite servicing spacecraft is launched for the U.S. #SpaceForce #Space Systems Command, they're ordering up another one for $54.5 million from #StarfishSpace. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/starfish-space-54-5m-space-force/

Seattle-based #Interlune was created to seek out and harvest #helium3 and other resources on the #moon - but now it's also aiming to help #NASA build base camps and other infrastructure on the lunar surface. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/interlune-excavator-helium-3-moon-construction/ #Space #Artemis

Why did #ElonMusk fold #xAI into SpaceX? Some industry observers say the acquisition, and SpaceX's proposal to put a million #AI data center satellites in orbit, are aimed at boosting interest in an initial public offering for #SpaceX (and throwing a lifeline to xAI). https://cosmiclog.com/2026/02/02/elon-musk-lays-out-a-new-vision-as-spacex-acquires-xai/ #Space #Tech

A #SpaceX proposal to put up to a million #satellites in orbit to process #AI data takes the controversies over its #Starlink network and ramps them up by two orders of magnitude. The plan would seem to trump other companies' aspirations to create orbital #datacenter constellations. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/spacex-fcc-million-data-center-satellites/ #Space #Tech #FCC

#Amazon says that delays in getting new rockets off the ground have made it impossible to meet an #FCC deadline for deploying the required number of #AmazonLeo broadband internet satellites by a July 30 deadline, so the company is asking for a two-year extension. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-leo-fcc-extension-request/ #Space

Aerospace consultant Roger Myers explains the geopolitical rationale behind the drive by #NASA and the Department of #Energy to put a #nuclear reactor on the #moon by the 2030s. Check out the #FictionScience podcast: https://cosmiclog.com/2026/01/30/why-nasa-is-going-nuclear-for-a-power-play-on-the-moon/ #Space

Seattle-based #Interlune reports that it's in the midst of a $5 million SAFE investment round to "advance key technical milestones" as it gets set to identify and extract lunar resources, starting with helium-3. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/interlune-funding-moon-mining-safe/ #Moon #Space #Helium3

#BlueOrigin sends six more people to #space on a #NewShepard suborbital rocket ship - including the director of New Shepard launch operations and training team, who was put on the flight manifest only a couple of days earlier when one of the original crew members fell ill. https://cosmiclog.com/2026/01/22/flight-log-blue-origin-team-leader-flies-standby-to-space/ #NS38

Jeff Bezos' #BlueOrigin space venture says its proposed 5,408-satellite #TeraWave constellation would offer data speeds of up to 6 terabits per second. But what would this mean for #Amazon - which was also founded by Bezos and is currently ramping up its own #satellite #broadband internet constellation? https://www.geekwire.com/2026/blue-origin-terawave-satellite-network/#Space #Leo #Tech

A Seattle-area startup called #StarfishSpace says its #Otter spacecraft will serve as a "tow truck" that the U.S. military can call on to deorbit worn-out satellites, under the terms of a $52.5 million contract. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/starfish-space-satellite-disposal-space-development-agency/ #Space

#NASA transports its Space Launch System rocket to the launch pad for the #Artemis2 mission, marking a significant step toward sending astronauts around the #moon for the first time since 1972. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/nasa-artemis-moon-rocket-rollout/ #Space #Artemis #SLS #Rollout

The rocket production facility that's currently operated by #L3Harris in the Seattle area is due to become part of a new venture called #Rocketdyne, with AE Industrial Partners as the majority owner. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/rocketdyne-redmond-new-ownership/ #Space