Eric Berger
Senior space editor at Ars Technica; wrote Liftoff and Reentry on SpaceX, and reports on launch and rocket programmes.
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A few square miles at the Moon's south pole are the only lunar real estate that matters, and whoever gets there first sets the terms.
In all of NASA’s and China’s plans for long-term settlement on the Moon, relatively few square miles at the South Pole of the Moon matter the most.
The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China’s space program Said 18 Aug 2026
Almost nobody in America is paying attention to the space race with China, and a Chinese landing at the lunar south pole will change that.
This will likely serve as a wake-up call to those not paying attention to the US-China space race—which, to be clear, is the vast majority of Americans.
The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China’s space program Said 18 Aug 2026
A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.
If China can land humans on the Moon before the United States returns, it will represent a huge geopolitical win.
The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China’s space program Said 18 Aug 2026
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Launch is getting harder to buy even as it gets cheaper: demand for orbit has outrun the supply of rockets.
Paradoxically, though, there is a growing crunch in launch availability.
There’s a huge launch crunch right now, and it will probably get worse Said 17 Aug 2026
The shortage of launch capacity will get worse over the next few years, not better.
And if things are bad now, there are reasons to believe they may get even worse over the next two to four years.
There’s a huge launch crunch right now, and it will probably get worse Said 17 Aug 2026
SpaceX is retiring the rocket that made cheap launch possible in order to fly its own satellites on a bigger one.
The company that is almost exclusively responsible for the dramatic increase in launch availability in the 2020s has signaled that it intends to wind down Falcon 9 operations as quickly as possible in favor of the larger Starship rocket.
There’s a huge launch crunch right now, and it will probably get worse Said 17 Aug 2026
Selling launches to other people is now a rounding error for SpaceX next to the money it makes from its own satellites.
In financial documents, it’s clear that SpaceX views commercial launch as a rounding error compared to revenues from its own satellites in space.
There’s a huge launch crunch right now, and it will probably get worse Said 17 Aug 2026
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A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world. 2 hold this
If China can land humans on the Moon before the United States returns, it will represent a huge geopolitical win.
The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China’s space program Said 18 Aug 2026
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