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Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Happy Labor Day! Due to the scheduling of the newsletter, I’ll have finished writing this by the time NASA makes the second launch attempt of the Artemis I mission. By now, you probably already know how it all went down anyway!...

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. I’m writing to you from Florida, where NASA scrubbed Monday’s launch attempt of the Artemis I mission. In this issue: NASA’s Artemis I launch is scrubbed T-Mobile and SpaceX’s new partnership News from Astrobotic, Violet Labs and more By the way… TechCrunch Disrupt finally returns...

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. T-minus 1 week until Artemis I liftoff. Are you going? I’ll be there! In this issue: NASA’s mega moon rocket rolls to the launch pad Skyrora’s testing milestone on Scottish soil News from Astrobotic, Blue Origin and more NASA engineers completed final tests of the...

The European space scene is about five to 10 years behind America’s, Hélène Huby explained in a recent interview. She’s certainly qualified to make such an assessment: Huby spent much of her career at major European aerospace company Airbus, where one of her roles was VP of the...

Tom Mueller is a self-described race car guy. Upon retiring from his role as CTO of Propulsion at SpaceX in November 2020, he “mostly wanted to go racing and ride dirt bikes and travel,” he said in a recent interview. Mueller, who is 61, was putting behind him...

NASA announced Wednesday that it is targeting as soon as late August for the first flight of the massive Space Launch System rocket, though agency officials stressed that the dates are tentative and dependent on teams completing remaining work. “It’s not an agency commitment,” Jim Free, NASA’s associate administrator...

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. In this issue: The first images from James Webb Space Telescope are here Lunar Outpost eyes up moon markets News from ABL Space Systems, Skyrora and more By the way…we’re right around the corner from TC Sessions: Robotics, a full-day digital gathering of some of...

NASA unveiled full-color images from the $11 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on Tuesday, marking the first of what is sure to be many releases from the super powerful optical instrument. But even taken by themselves, these five images mark a massive achievement and the culmination of...

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. By the time you read this, we’ll be less than 24 hours away from the release of the first images captured by James Webb Space Telescope. In this issue: CAPSTONE loses, then reestablishes, communication with Earth Rocket Lab offers next-day shipping to space News...

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. I hope all my American readers had a restful Independence Day. In this issue: Rocket Lab launches NASA’s CAPSTONE mission The first images from James Webb Space Telescope are almost here News from AWS, SpaceX and more Don’t forget to sign up to get the...