Week 23, 06 June 2025

#01 🚀🪂📦 | 90 min. deliveries, anywhere on Earth.

TL;DR
More than fourteen thousand tonnes of derelict satellites, spent stages and fragments now circle Earth, yet the vehicles that can bring cargo home together return only a few dozen tonnes each year; a single SpaceX Dragon, the workhorse of today’s down-mass capacity, tops out at three tonnes per splash-down, and it flies a handful of times annually (sdup.esoc.esa.int). That asymmetry—materials and value flowing up but rarely back—defines the economics of low-Earth orbit, and it is the imbalance that Outpost Technologies, founded in Santa Monica in 2021 by Made In Space alumni Jason Dunn and Aaron Kemmer with paraglider engineer Michael Vergalla, set out to reverse (Business Wire).