Latest briefing · August 8, 2026
What Tom Percy Just Got Right About Integrating the Lunar Landing System
NASA's Tom Percy is quietly solving the hardest coordination problem in human spaceflight — making SpaceX and other lander providers work as one system.
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August 8, 2026
Lunar Dust Is the Hidden Enemy of Surface Power — Here's How NASA Is Fighting It
NASA's Johnson Space Center facility is stress-testing Artemis hardware against lunar regolith before any power system touches the Moon.
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August 7, 2026
Silicon PV for Satellites: Fraunhofer ISE and Source Energy Challenge III-V Dominance
Fraunhofer ISE and Source Energy are developing silicon-based PV modules for satellites, targeting a lower-cost alternative to III-V cells that dominate spacecraft power today.
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August 6, 2026
NASA's Moon Base Cargo Push: Four Landers, One Power Problem That Still Needs Solving
With four commercial landers targeting 2028 lunar delivery and a navigation payload already integrated, the Moon Base program is real — but surface power remains the open variable.
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August 5, 2026
Kreios Space's VLEO Air-Breathing Demo Tests the Power Architecture Space Solar Needs
A Spanish startup's air-breathing electric thruster demo in very low Earth orbit has direct implications for the propulsion and power budgets of future SBSP platforms.
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August 4, 2026
Drift-Aware Space Tugs Could Cut Propellant Costs for In-Orbit Servicing Missions
A new trajectory-optimization framework exploits Earth's orbital precession to slash fuel costs for multi-target space tug missions.
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August 1, 2026
What This Polish Research Team Just Got Right About Perovskite Solar for Space
A Polish team's 21.87%-efficient semi-transparent perovskite cell could reshape the specific-power calculus for space solar arrays.
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August 1, 2026
K2 Space's $500M Series D Signals a New Power Demand Curve for Large Satellites
K2 Space's $500M raise targets 100 large satellites per year — and the power architecture question behind every one of those buses just got louder.
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July 31, 2026
ispace Picks H3 for 2028 Moon Landing — What the Lunar Surface Power Roadmap Needs Next
ispace's 2028 H3 launch contract is Japan's first private lunar transport system — here's what it means for surface power on the Moon.
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July 29, 2026
NASA's $2B Fission Mars Mission Forces a Hard Look at Surface Power Choices
NASA has priced Space Reactor-1 Freedom at $2B USD — here's what that number means for every surface-power roadmap planner.
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