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Rocket Lab has been on-ramped for US and UK defense contracts to expand hypersonic technology development with its Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE). Redwire has been selected by Thales Alenia Space to provide four International Berthing and Docking Mechanism (IBDM) for ESA’s Lunar I-Hab. Lúnasa has been awarded a contract by ESA for “Deep Neural Network for Robust Satellite Model Matching”, and more.Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app.Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram.T-Minus GuestOur guest today is Elizabeth Kyrst, the CEO of i-space US. You can connect with Elizabeth on LinkedIn, and learn more about ispace-US on their website.Selected ReadingRocket Lab Onramped To Multi-Billion Dollar U.S. and U.K. Defense Contracts To Expand Hypersonic Technology Development with HASTERedwire Awarded Contract From Thales Alenia Space to Provide Docking System for European Habitation Module on the Gateway Lunar Space StationLúnasa LinkedIn Space ISAC Announces UK Global Hub During 40th Annual Space SymposiumOutpost Awarded DAF Contract for the AFRL Rocket Cargo Vanguard Program to Advance Deployable Heat Shield Technology for Shipping Container Size Deliveries from SpaceSpaceApps and Blue Abyss sign MoU for Mobile Gravity Off-loading System (MOGOS) - Space ApplicationsGlam in Space: Why the NS-31 Women Are More Astronaut Than Most of Us50 years of ESAT-Minus Crew SurveyWe want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day.Want to hear your company in the show?You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info.Want to join us for an interview?Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal.T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blue Origin carries the first all-female crew to the Kármán line. A leaked copy of the US Administration's 2026 budget request includes a 47% cut to NASA's science programs. NASA seeks business models that propose new approaches to solving complex Earth science problems using unconventional computing methods, and more.Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app.Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram.T-Minus GuestOur guest today is Patrick O'Neill, Public Affairs and Outreach Lead at the International Space Station US National Laboratory.You can connect with Patrick on LinkedIn, and learn more about the ISS National Lab on their website.Selected ReadingNew Shepard Mission NS-31- Blue OriginAdvocacy Action Center- The Planetary SocietyNASA Announces Call For New Computing Approaches to Earth ScienceSatellogic Awarded $30 Million Contract for Its AI-First Constellation ServicesIndia, UAE to step up defence and Coast Guard cooperationAE Industrial Partners Mull $2 Billion York Space Sale - BloombergJonathan McDowell on Retiring From Harvard and Leaving the U.S. - The New York TimesWorld Quantum DayT-Minus Crew SurveyWe want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day.Want to hear your company in the show?You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info.Want to join us for an interview?Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal.T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Space Foundation produces quarterly space reports providing data and analysis into the global space economy. Q1’s report focuses on the space workforce. It found that the space industry talent market surged in early 2025, with job postings to an industry website up 17% from the prior year. We spoke to Lesley Conn, the Director of Research & Analysis and Digital Programming and Cass Cameron Managing Editor of the Space Foundation  Q1 edition of The Space Report.You can find the Space Report on the Space Foundation website.Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app.Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram.T-Minus Crew SurveyWe want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day.Want to hear your company in the show?You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info.Want to join us for an interview?Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal.T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

India’s Bellatrix Aerospace has announced expansion of operations to the US. Privateer Space has announced a strategic investment from the Far Eastern Group. ispace-US and Zenno Power have signed an agreement to jointly develop technologies that enable lunar missions to survive the harsh lunar night, and more.Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app.Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram.T-Minus GuestElysia Segal from NASASpaceflight.com brings us the Space Traffic Report.Selected ReadingBellatrix Aerospace expands to US, plans manufacturing unit in Delaware - The Economic TimesPrivateer's Global Expansion Continues With Strategic Investment From Taiwan's Far Eastern Groupispace-U.S. and Zeno Power Announce Strategic Collaboration on Surviving the Lunar Night Using Radioisotope Power SystemsVast Signs Agreement to Leverage International Space Station (ISS) National Labtraining, logistics, and operations support services 2025-2029 (e3c1-024)Fisica, Inc. Acquires Space Vector to Expand Capabilities in Aerospace and Defense SystemsCommander of US base in Greenland fired for email critical of Vance visit - ABC NewReps Lieu And Calvert Introduce Resolution Establishing National Space DayT-Minus Crew SurveyWe want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day.Want to hear your company in the show?You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info.Want to join us for an interview?Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal.T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman appeared at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Intelsat has become the first and only satellite operator to complete a satellite life-extension mission.  Sirius Space is collaborating with Ursa Major on the development of a medium-launch (ML) engine, and more.Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app.Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram.T-Minus GuestOur guest today is Oklahoma Lt Governor Matt Pinnell. You can learn more about the Lt Governor on his website and more on the Aerospace States Association on this website.Selected ReadingNASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman supports a return to the moon, argues for a parallel path to Mars - CBS NewsIntelsat Completes Satellite Life-Extension Mission, Makes Space History Ursa Major to expand partnership with Sirius Technologies Sidus Space and Reflex Aerospace Sign MOU to Launch Joint Venture for Global Satellite SolutionsSpace ISAC LinkedInAtlas V Kuiper 1Karman Space & Defense Reports Full-Fiscal Year 2024 Financial ResultsT-Minus Crew SurveyWe want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day.Want to hear your company in the show?You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info.Want to join us for an interview?Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal.T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You can learn more about AWS in Orbit at space.n2k.com/aws.Our guests on this episode are AJ Gemer, CTO at Lunar Outpost and Salem El Nimri, CTO at AWS Aerospace & Satellite.Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app.Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram.Selected ReadingAWS Aerospace and SatelliteAudience SurveyWe want to hear from you! Please complete our short survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day.Want to hear your company in the show?You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info.Want to join us for an interview?Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal.T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © 2023 N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The US Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) Front Door office has launched a new initiative designed to enhance unclassified threat-information-sharing with commercial space companies. Astroscale US to conduct two refueling operations of a US Department of Defense (DoD) satellite in geostationary orbit (GEO) for the USSF. Vast has announced that Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation, Interstellar Lab, and Exobiosphere are the latest payload partners for its Haven-1 Lab, and more.Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app.Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram.Selected ReadingUSSF launches Orbital Watch, strengthens U.S. Commercial Space Industry Astroscale U.S. to Lead the First-Ever Refueling of a United States Space Force AssetVast Announces Three Additional Payload Partners for the Haven-1 Lab: JAMSS, Interstellar Lab, and ExobiosphereRedwire and ispace-U.S. Sign MOU to Jointly Pursue Commercial Lunar Exploration MissionsBlue Skies Space awarded funding to design a fleet of satellites that will orbit the Moon and map the early universeNASA Welcomes Bangladesh as Newest Artemis Accords SignatoryJapanese Space Startup Makes Deal to Buy US-made Rocket Engines - Bloomberg Trump's NASA nominee backs US moon program in talks with lawmakers, sources say- Reuters T-Minus Crew SurveyWe want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day.Want to hear your company in the show?You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info.Want to join us for an interview?Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal.T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Firefly Aerospace to perform a responsive on-orbit mission with its Elytra spacecraft in support of the US Department of Defense (DoD’s) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Sinequone Project. A Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft carrying a three-member crew arrived at the International Space Station. Millennium Space Systems has completed the critical design review (CDR) for the FOO Fighter, and more.Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app.Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram.Selected ReadingFirefly Aerospace Awarded DoD Contract for Responsive On-Orbit Mission with Elytra SpacecraftNASA Astronaut, Crewmates Arrive Safely at Space StationMillennium Space Systems Completes FOO Fighter Critical Design Review in Just 10 MonthsAxiom Space to Launch Orbital Data Center Nodes to Support National Security, Commercial, International CustomersRTX's Raytheon awards dual-source contracts for solid rocket motor developmentIENIA secures €2.3 million in funding from the Spanish Space Agency (AEE), through the CDTI and NextGenerationEU, to lead our latest R&D project: ATALAIAVoyager Onboards USAF Enterprise-wide Agile Acquisition ContractExclusive: Germany funds Eutelsat internet in Ukraine as Musk tensions rise-  ReutersT-Minus Crew SurveyWe want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day.Want to hear your company in the show?You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info.Want to join us for an interview?Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal.T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You can learn more about AWS in Orbit at space.n2k.com/aws.Our guests today are Ed Meletyan, Senior Solutions Architect AWS, William Duhe, AWS Senior SW Development Engineer; and, Junk Wilson VP, Business Development at Orion Space Solutions.Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app.Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram.Selected ReadingAWS Aerospace and SatelliteAudience SurveyWe want to hear from you! Please complete our short survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day.Want to hear your company in the show?You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info.Want to join us for an interview?Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal.T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © 2023 N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

US Space Systems Command has awarded three National Security Space Launch (NSSL) contracts to SpaceX, ULA and Blue Origin. Aetherflux has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round. A US Senate Committee will hold a hearing on Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be NASA Administrator on April 9, and more.Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app.Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram.T-Minus GuestBailey Reichelt and Jack Shelton bring us the ‘Ask Aegis Space Law” monthly segment. Feel free to email space@n2k.com with your questions for Aegis Space Law.Selected ReadingSpace Systems Command awards National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 contractsContracts for April 4, 2025Aetherflux Raises $50 Million to Deliver Energy to Planet EarthIsaacman Nomination Hearing Set for April 9 – SpacePolicyOnline.comHere’s what to expect from Project Kuiper’s first full-scale satellite launchNASA Welcomes Gateway Lunar Space Station’s HALO Module to USVanguard 1 is the oldest satellite orbiting Earth. Scientists want to bring it home after 67 years- SpaceT-Minus Crew SurveyWe want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day.Want to hear your company in the show?You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info.Want to join us for an interview?Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal.T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices