Two space announcements landed on November 6 that look unrelated. One is about relaying data from orbit, the other about launch pads in Florida. Read together they say the same thing. Washington is handing more of its space plumbing to commercial firms, and those firms are building capacity before the contracts fully exist. Astranis takes a slice of the TDRS replacement NASA … [Read more...] about NASA Picks Astranis for a 264 Million Dollar TDRS Relay Replacement as Stoke Space Gets Room for a Second Cape Pad