Reuters
SpaceX told investors in a briefing that it will prioritize a Moon landing first, targeting 2027, and push back plans for a Mars mission to a later, unspecified date, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing people familiar with the company's updated timeline.
By Spaceflight Now:  It’s the end of an era as SpaceX transitions all of its planned Dragon flights from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: After losing about 20% of its civil servant workforce in the past year, NASA’s administrator says the agency plans to bring more expertise in-house.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: Blue Origin is now targeting the satellite constellation market, in one of the biggest and perhaps even most surprising story of the year, Blue Origin.
Space.com
• Robert Lea
By Space.com: "We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models.".
Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
By Universe Today: Recently published data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) of the galaxy Messier 87 facilitate new insights into the direct environment of the central supermassive black hole.
SpaceNews.com
By SpaceNews.com: At least 5,000 federal workers left their positions in the U.S. space workforce last year. These are some of their stories.
Ars Technica
• Stephen Clark
By Ars Technica: NASA shall evaluate the "viability of transferring the ISS to a safe orbital harbor" after retirement.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
