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The one thing
NASA will launch the Artemis III crew only after Blue Origin's lander test vehicle reaches Earth orbit and completes initial checkouts, Administrator Jared Isaacman told NASASpaceflight, per New Space Economy.
Launches
Next 24 hours
Mon, Nov 2 · 16:41 UTC (11:41 AM ET)
Electron | The Sea God Surveys (iQPS Launch 9) (Rocket Lab, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand)
Tue, Nov 3 · 00:10 UTC (7:10 PM ET)
Kinetica 2 | SpaceSail Polar Group TBD? (CAS Space, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China)
This week in launches
Wed, Nov 4, 01:28 UTC: Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-432 (SpaceX)
Wed, Nov 4, 05:00 UTC: Mir | Demo Flight (Agency for Defense Development)
Thu, Nov 5, 16:00 UTC: Long March 2C (China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation)
Thu, Nov 5, 21:15 UTC: Long March 12 | SatNet LEO Group TBD? (China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation)
Fri, Nov 6, 23:35 UTC: Ceres-2 (Galactic Energy)
Money
Funding rounds
Northwood Space raised $375M (Series C). Source: Payload Space
Government contracts
Lockheed Martin, $4.5B, Space Force: Lockheed Martin: GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) IIIA
Filings and results
General Dynamics (GD): Results (8-K, Item 2.02), filed Oct 30 SEC filing
General Dynamics (GD): Quarterly report (10-Q), filed Oct 30 SEC filing
Funding tracker. Not investment advice.
Hiring
11,152 job postings (about 9,900 distinct roles) on the jobs board, 991 of the postings dated in the last seven days. Most new postings this week: Blue Origin (171), SpaceX (168), Rocket Lab (113).
One number
17 launch slips
Launch dates that moved a day or more later, with both dates known to the day, seen by our sync since August 29, 2026 (placeholder rolls such as "2026" becoming "2027", and older changes our sync only caught up with late, are not counted); the biggest recent slip was 2.1 days.
Source: SpaceNexus Slip Explorer (LaunchDateChange ledger) · as of 2026-11-02 · Slip Explorer.
Quick reads
Northwood Space to Scale Ground Network Build-Out With $375M Funding Raise
5 bright planets to spot in November, when and where to see them
Space Force effort to assure surge capacity on commercial satellites starts small
Commercial operators selling to the military should watch how this surge-capacity effort scales, since Space Intel Report says it gets harder from here.
Space Intel Report · Space Defense · Save
Aerospace Corp puts FY2026 government civil space spending at $42.6 billion
Congress is in recess until after the midterms, so this broader count frames the budget questions lawmakers face when they return.
SpaceNexus · US Space Budget Tracker · Save
Today's puzzle
Daily Space Puzzle #36: one space question with an official source behind the answer, two tries, a result to share.
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