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SpaceNexus AM · Tuesday, October 13, 2026
The Unglamorous Lunar Stack: NovaMoon Navigation, ispace-ALTEC Rover Testing and NASA's Lunar Grounding Challenge, reported by SpaceNexus.
The Unglamorous Lunar Stack: NovaMoon Navigation, ispace-ALTEC Rover Testing and NASA's Lunar Grounding Challenge, reported by SpaceNexus.
9,977 job postings (about 8,800 distinct roles) on the jobs board, 783 of the postings dated in the last seven days. Most new postings this week: Blue Origin (143), SpaceX (130), Rocket Lab (78).
Jobs boardLaunch 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 days.
Source: SpaceNexus Slip Explorer (LaunchDateChange ledger) · as of 2026-10-13 · Slip Explorer
The October 12 agreement sets up a Greek industrial and Thales partnership on a defense satellite communications system; watch for any follow-on contract.
Station developers have until Dec. 8 to bid, and NASA expects awards in spring 2027 for the ISS replacement.
2020 (6 years ago): Artemis Accords signed. Eight founding nations signed the Artemis Accords, establishing principles for the peaceful exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond, building on the Outer Space Treaty for responsible resource utilization.
Today in space historyLines marked with the publisher's name only are the publishers' own headlines: our fact-check held back the AI-drafted lines for those stories. The other lines were drafted by AI (Claude) from the linked reporting and checked against it by a separate AI fact-check. Launches, money, hiring, the number and the history item come straight from our own data.
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