The Hill
A potential SpaceX IPO, coupled with fast-developing space-based AI capabilities, is accelerating the commercialisation of off‑Earth activity — from expanded orbital services to ambitions for Mars. The opening of space to human commercial activity, the article argues, is a prospect to be welcomed eagerly.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Rocket Lab successfully launched a Japanese radar imaging satellite Dec. 21 in the final flight of a record-setting year for the company.
Universe Today
• Andy Tomaswick
By Universe Today: Engineers need good data to build lasting things. Even the designers of the Great Pyramids knew the limestone they used to build these massive structures would be steady when stacked on top of one another, even if they didn’t have tables of the compressive strength of those stones.
Wall Street Journal
• Andrew Tangel
By Wall Street Journal: FAA documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show an explosion of SpaceX’s Starship on Jan. 16 posed a greater danger to planes in the air over the Caribbean than was publicly known.
By Spaceflight Now:  In a prelude to the real deal, the four astronauts of the Artemis 2 mission boarded their Orion spacecraft inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday afternoon.
Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
By Universe Today: Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers has discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic primordial stars that were among the first to form after the Big Bang.
CBS News
• William Harwood
By CBS News: German engineer Michaela Benthaus is the first person with a significant physical handicap to reach space.
SpaceNews.com
ESA
• European Space Agency
By ESA: Europe’s next solid propellant rocket motor passes review In brief - The P160C solid propellant rocket motor passed its ground qualification review - The upgraded rocket motor will increase performance and competitiveness for the Ariane and Vega rockets - Teams are working on the first four flight units and on industrial ramp-up production to 35 or more motors a year In-depth After firing up on.
Bloomberg
• Sana Pashankar; Loren Grush
