Space Symposium 2024 Day 2

Max Space sees its inflatable structures as useful for building orbiting space stations in Earth orbit, but habitats in cislunar space, on the Moon and Mars.

The document identifies the specific missions it wants to focus on for increasing commercial capabilities.

The initiative allows services to spend up to $100 million for early development activities up to the preliminary design review stage.

The recovery is a milestone in the company’s efforts to step up its launch cadence by reusing first-stage boosters.

Vast plans to integrate SpaceX’s Starlink laser communication system into its commercial space station, Haven-1, scheduled for launch in 2025.

U.S. Space Command has extended invitations to France, Germany and New Zealand to join a high-level collaborative group on military space operations.

JAXA tells Aerospace DAILY that despite the two-year delay, it is only considering some minor efforts to add “more sophistication” to some of the MMX experiments.

The Chinese government has recently proactively shared space safety information twice with the U.S. within the past six months.