Latest briefing · July 24, 2026
What Dr. Sarah Wolff Just Got Right About Building on the Moon
Wolff's laser-based 3D printing approach turns lunar regolith into structural material — here's why it belongs on every surface power roadmap.
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July 24, 2026
NASA's Budget Cuts Shadow Artemis Surface Power as Workforce Shrinks by a Fifth
With NASA down 20% of its civil servants and Artemis IV hardware moving, surface power programs face a staffing crisis at the worst possible time.
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July 23, 2026
NASA Drops Draper, Reshuffles Artemis: What the Lunar Power Roadmap Looks Like Now
NASA's termination of Draper's lunar lander and a new Artemis III dress rehearsal reorder the surface power deployment timeline readers need to replan around.
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July 22, 2026
Pentagon's $7.1M Cover Glass Contract Signals a Quiet but Critical Supply Chain Fix
A Defense Production Act award to one small business exposes how thin the U.S. supply chain for radiation-hardened satellite solar components really is.
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July 21, 2026
DIU's Orbital Power Solicitation and ORiS's €5M Raise Signal a Credible SBSP Sprint to 2030
Two funding moves this week—DIU's commercial SBSP solicitation and ORiS's €5M laser round—mark the clearest military-commercial alignment the sector has seen.
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