News

CNBC • Jim Cramer

Mega IPOs from SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI won’t fix market headwinds — limited benefit for aerospace financing

Three structural headwinds are weighing on global equity markets even as planned mega‑IPOs from SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI promise outsized capital raises. If completed, those listings could inject sizable liquidity but are unlikely to reverse market pressures or guarantee broader financing for aerospace firms.

2026-04-05T10:26:32.547934-07:00

CNBC

Planet Labs and peers impose indefinite blackout on Iran, wider Middle East imagery at U.S. request

2026-04-05T03:21:04.988317-07:00

SpaceNews.com

ULA's Atlas V launches 29 Amazon Kuiper LEO satellites in heaviest Atlas V payload to date

2026-04-04T13:47:22.301868-07:00

NASA Spaceflight

NASA and Astrobotic pick lunar south pole site for VIPER and Griffin ahead of Artemis human landings

2026-04-03T16:12:35.997218-07:00

News Timeline

CNBC

Mega IPOs from SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI won’t fix market headwinds — limited benefit for aerospace financing Three structural headwinds are weighing on global equity markets even as planned mega‑IPOs from SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI promise outsized capital raises. If completed, those listings could inject sizable liquidity but are unlikely to reverse market pressures or guarantee broader financing for aerospace firms.

2026-04-05T10:26:32.547934-07:00

Mega IPOs from SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI won’t fix market headwinds — limited benefit for aerospace financing

CNBC

❗️

Planet Labs and peers impose indefinite blackout on Iran, wider Middle East imagery at U.S. request Planet Labs said April 5 it will indefinitely withhold commercial satellite imagery covering Iran and broader Middle East conflict zones at the request of the U.S. national security team, expanding earlier short-term delays and withholding imagery dating back to March 9 until hostilities end.

2026-04-05T03:21:04.988317-07:00

Planet Labs and peers impose indefinite blackout on Iran, wider Middle East imagery at U.S. request

SpaceNews.com

❗️

ULA's Atlas V launches 29 Amazon Kuiper LEO satellites in heaviest Atlas V payload to date An Atlas V launched 29 Amazon Kuiper LEO broadband satellites on April 4, marking the heaviest payload and the largest number of spacecraft ever carried on an Atlas V. The mission brings ULA's total Kuiper satellites launched to 139 and was one of the rocket's remaining Atlas V flights.

2026-04-04T13:47:22.301868-07:00

ULA's Atlas V launches 29 Amazon Kuiper LEO satellites in heaviest Atlas V payload to date

NASA Spaceflight

❗️

NASA and Astrobotic pick lunar south pole site for VIPER and Griffin ahead of Artemis human landings NASA and commercial partner Astrobotic have selected a site on the Moon’s south pole for the VIPER rover and Astrobotic’s Griffin lander, marking a coordinated robotic reconnaissance ahead of planned Artemis human missions. The designation focuses science on volatile‑rich terrain close to proposed Artemis 4 touchdown zones.

2026-04-03T16:12:35.997218-07:00

NASA and Astrobotic pick lunar south pole site for VIPER and Griffin ahead of Artemis human landings

Universe Today

ISRU‑equipped aerobot concept could sustain multi‑year Venus atmospheric exploration, 50 years after Venera‑8 Scientists propose an aerial robotic platform (an aerobot) using in‑situ resource utilization (ISRU) to harvest Venus’ atmosphere and power onboard systems, potentially enabling continuous operations for years. That capability would be a dramatic advance over the Soviet Venera‑8 mission, which returned data for under an hour 50 years ago.

2026-04-03T15:50:52.644860-07:00

ISRU‑equipped aerobot concept could sustain multi‑year Venus atmospheric exploration, 50 years after Venera‑8

Reuters

❗️

SpaceX pushes next Starship test flight from April to May, Musk says SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company's next Starship test flight has slipped from April to May, delaying the orbital test campaign by roughly one month. SpaceX did not provide a detailed reason for the postponement or a firm launch date.

2026-04-03T11:10:36.264127-07:00

SpaceX pushes next Starship test flight from April to May, Musk says

Space.com

Blue Ghost's first thermal readings upend Moon's nearside–farside temperature divide New measurements from Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander challenge the decades‑old idea that the Moon is cleanly divided between a hotter near side and a cooler far side. The lander's in‑situ thermal data reveal surface‑temperature patterns that require rethinking lunar thermal and geologic models.

2026-04-03T11:07:06.785586-07:00

Blue Ghost's first thermal readings upend Moon's nearside–farside temperature divide

Space.com

1st results from Blue Ghost lunar lander reveal how much we still don't know about the moon

2026-04-03T11:07:06.785586-07:00

1st results from Blue Ghost lu

Menu

Commercial Space News

Mega IPOs from SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI won’t fix market headwinds — limited benefit for aerospace financing

Planet Labs and peers impose indefinite blackout on Iran, wider Middle East imagery at U.S. request

ULA's Atlas V launches 29 Amazon Kuiper LEO satellites in heaviest Atlas V payload to date

NASA and Astrobotic pick lunar south pole site for VIPER and Griffin ahead of Artemis human landings

News Timeline