Aerospace.
All Remiam work tagged Aerospace — across client systems, own products, and the studio's field notes.
- 21 Sept 2026→
Placement is the whole product.
Rocket Lab put Synspective's twelfth radar satellite into an exact 572km orbit on 18 September, its 96th Electron flight and its seventeenth of 2026. A shared ride would have been cheaper and would have broken the thing the constellation sells.
- 7 Sept 2026→
Most of the push is borrowed.
On 30 September, ESA's Juice spacecraft swings past Earth to steal a little of the planet's momentum on its way to Jupiter. It carries over three tonnes of propellant and still cannot get there on its own. That trade, less fuel in exchange for a hard appointment, is one we make in software every week.
- 9 Aug 2026→
Ten weeks to name a valve
Blue Origin lost a 98-metre rocket on 28 May. On 5 August it named the cause: a main oxygen valve on one of seven engines. The interesting number is not the valve, it is the ten weeks.
- 2 Aug 2026→
A ground station burned and nothing missed a beat
A wildfire went through NASA's Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on 24 July. Ninety people evacuated, a 70 metre dish went offline, and spacecraft across the solar system carried on talking. The failover was not clever engineering on the day. It was a decision made sixty years earlier.
- 26 Jul 2026→
Flight 13 carried something real
Starship's thirteenth test flight put 20 working Starlink V3 satellites into space, relit an engine, and landed the ship intact in the Indian Ocean. The booster came down hard. The interesting change is not the splashdown, it is that the payload was real for the first time.
- 12 Jul 2026→
Reuse is the feature, not the afterthought
On 9 July a single Falcon 9 booster flew for the 36th time, a reuse record. The number is impressive on its own, but the useful part is the discipline behind it, and what it says about building systems designed to be flown again.
- 8 Jul 2026→
Orbit is a shared bus now.
On 7 July a single Falcon 9 carried 81 satellites to orbit on a reused booster flying for the eleventh time. Getting to space used to be a bespoke, once-in-a-programme event. It is now scheduled shared transit, and the shift is a lesson about reuse that applies well beyond rockets.