ORBITAL WHISPERS
Spinlaunch
Short version: SpinLaunch is now a satellite company that still talks about the big slingshot. The money and the near-term plan say “Meridian Space,” a 280-sat LEO broadband constellation built…
Launch Providers
They build rockets, light them, and pray the payload makes it to orbit. The glamour side of space, until something explodes.
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CGWIC
China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) is Beijing’s export arm for space. It was created in 1980 under CASC to sell Long March launches, turnkey satellites, and infrastructure projects to…
Gilmour Space
Gilmour Space is Australia’s attempt at having a real launch industry instead of just press conferences with kangaroos in the background. They’ve gone the hard route, build the rocket, build…
Blue Origin
Blue Origin is the billionaire’s midlife crisis turned aerospace company, except the crisis never ends and the rockets rarely fly. Jeff Bezos poured billions into it, built gleaming facilities in…
ULA
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is the aerospace equivalent of a gated retirement community. Safe, quiet, and full of people who still think the Shuttle was “modern.” It was born in…
SpaceX
SpaceX is the rocket company that turned orbital launch into Uber Eats. Falcon 9 goes up, comes back down, does it again next week, and the world barely blinks. What…
Arianespace
Arianespace is the launch provider you call when you want European ministers to nod approvingly, not when you care about cost or cadence. It was born in the Cold War…