Loren Grush
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Space reporter at @bloomberg.com covering NASA, commercial space, and the cosmos | Send tips: LGrush@bloomberg.net | Signal username: lorengrush.56 | Buy my book! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Six/Loren-Grush/9781982172817
Couldn’t have imagined this is where this story would land back in 2022.
Scoop: The US labor board is giving up oversight over Elon Musk's SpaceX, and abandoning its yearslong case over the firing of engineers behind an open letter that criticized Musk www.bloomberg.com/news/article... NLRB prosecutors now say NMB, not NLRB, has jurisdiction over SpaceX
US Labor Board Gives Up Oversight of SpaceX in Victory for Musk
Agency drops yearslong case over firing of Musk critics.
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February 10, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Couldn’t have imagined this is where this story would land back in 2022.
Sure, you can technically delay a Mars mission that was never going to happen this year, just like I'm delaying my debut as a free soloist, which was DEFINITELY going to happen this year. I have decided I also need to wait for the planets to realign www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Musk Shifts Focus to Moon as Mars Mission Remains Years Away
While most Americans were transfixed by this year’s Super Bowl proceedings on Sunday night, Elon Musk took to X to proclaim that SpaceX would focus on building out a base on the moon before sending hu...
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February 9, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Sure, you can technically delay a Mars mission that was never going to happen this year, just like I'm delaying my debut as a free soloist, which was DEFINITELY going to happen this year. I have decided I also need to wait for the planets to realign www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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NEW: Elon Musk's company town in Texas, Starbase, is getting its own police department.
Expected to have eight officers and could be up and running in a few months.
Comes after a deal w/ Cameron County Sheriff's Office broke down.
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Expected to have eight officers and could be up and running in a few months.
Comes after a deal w/ Cameron County Sheriff's Office broke down.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/04/e...
Elon Musk's SpaceX company town is getting a police department | TechCrunch
The new department will have up to eight police officers and could be up and running in a few months.
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February 4, 2026 at 9:49 PM
NEW: Elon Musk's company town in Texas, Starbase, is getting its own police department.
Expected to have eight officers and could be up and running in a few months.
Comes after a deal w/ Cameron County Sheriff's Office broke down.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/04/e...
Expected to have eight officers and could be up and running in a few months.
Comes after a deal w/ Cameron County Sheriff's Office broke down.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/04/e...
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
February 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
Overnight, NASA called off February for any launch attempts of Artemis II and is now aiming for March at the earliest following yesterday's wet dress rehearsal. www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
NASA Conducts Artemis II Fuel Test, Eyes March for Launch Opportunity - NASA
NASA concluded a wet dress rehearsal for the agency’s Artemis II test flight early Tuesday morning, successfully loading cryogenic propellant into the SLS
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February 3, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Overnight, NASA called off February for any launch attempts of Artemis II and is now aiming for March at the earliest following yesterday's wet dress rehearsal. www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
SpaceX has confirmed it: it's acquiring xAI. New valuation and share price set. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
February 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM
SpaceX has confirmed it: it's acquiring xAI. New valuation and share price set. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NASA says it's "Go" for tanking of its SLS rocket for a wet dress rehearsal that could pave the way for the launch of Artemis II www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal: ‘Go’ for Tanking - NASA
At approximately 11:25 a.m. EST, the Artemis launch director, in coordination with the mission management team chair, gave the “go” to begin loading cryogenic
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February 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
NASA says it's "Go" for tanking of its SLS rocket for a wet dress rehearsal that could pave the way for the launch of Artemis II www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
It's been a wild few days on the space beat:
-- SpaceX considering mergers with Tesla or xAI
-- Blue Origin pausing its New Shepard flights
-- SpaceX filing for one million data center satellites
-- All while waiting to hear more about Artemis II
I'm sure there's more, but my brain is fried
-- SpaceX considering mergers with Tesla or xAI
-- Blue Origin pausing its New Shepard flights
-- SpaceX filing for one million data center satellites
-- All while waiting to hear more about Artemis II
I'm sure there's more, but my brain is fried
January 31, 2026 at 5:22 PM
It's been a wild few days on the space beat:
-- SpaceX considering mergers with Tesla or xAI
-- Blue Origin pausing its New Shepard flights
-- SpaceX filing for one million data center satellites
-- All while waiting to hear more about Artemis II
I'm sure there's more, but my brain is fried
-- SpaceX considering mergers with Tesla or xAI
-- Blue Origin pausing its New Shepard flights
-- SpaceX filing for one million data center satellites
-- All while waiting to hear more about Artemis II
I'm sure there's more, but my brain is fried
NASA has moved the wet dress rehearsal of its SLS rocket to Monday
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NASA Updates Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal, Launch Opportunities - NASA
NASA is targeting Monday, Feb. 2, as the tanking day for the upcoming Artemis II wet dress rehearsal at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as a
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January 30, 2026 at 1:17 PM
NASA has moved the wet dress rehearsal of its SLS rocket to Monday
www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
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Kind of wild that one of NASA's biggest human spaceflight mission in years COULD be happening next week, but we're still waiting to know what's up. www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
NASA Moves Steps Closer to Artemis II Fueling Test Ahead of Launch - NASA
Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue to prepare the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, Orion spacecraft, and ground infrastructure in
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January 27, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Kind of wild that one of NASA's biggest human spaceflight mission in years COULD be happening next week, but we're still waiting to know what's up. www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
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excited to have a story in Businessweek about the researchers who think AI weather forecasts can break through the limits of the Butterfly Effect: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
How AI Weather Models Are Making Better Forecasts
Google, Microsoft and Nvidia are among the names vying to make forecasts more accurate for longer.
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January 22, 2026 at 3:06 PM
excited to have a story in Businessweek about the researchers who think AI weather forecasts can break through the limits of the Butterfly Effect: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Blue Origin has announced its own megaconstellation called TeraWeave, consisting of 5,408 telecom satellites that are "urpose-built to serve enterprise-grade customers" www.blueorigin.com/news/blue-or...
January 21, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Blue Origin has announced its own megaconstellation called TeraWeave, consisting of 5,408 telecom satellites that are "urpose-built to serve enterprise-grade customers" www.blueorigin.com/news/blue-or...
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Oh genuinely this photo of Artemis II is just so good.
January 19, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Oh genuinely this photo of Artemis II is just so good.
Congress has passed the minibus spending bill for NASA, which would reject most of the proposed budget cuts for the agency www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Congress Defies Trump on NASA Science Budget
The space community is breathing a sigh of relief after lawmakers rejected Trump proposed cuts.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Congress has passed the minibus spending bill for NASA, which would reject most of the proposed budget cuts for the agency www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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A small silver lining: Yes, NASA and NOAA did not do briefings for their global temp data sets released today. And they certainly do not emphasize the human causes. But they *did* release them. The work is still happening.
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January 14, 2026 at 5:52 PM
A small silver lining: Yes, NASA and NOAA did not do briefings for their global temp data sets released today. And they certainly do not emphasize the human causes. But they *did* release them. The work is still happening.
data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/grap...
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/grap...
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It's "very unlikely" NASA will be able to recover the MAVEN Mars orbiter, NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter says at the Small Bodies Assessment Group meeting this morning. Efforts to restore contact will resume Friday, after solar conjunction ends.
January 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
It's "very unlikely" NASA will be able to recover the MAVEN Mars orbiter, NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter says at the Small Bodies Assessment Group meeting this morning. Efforts to restore contact will resume Friday, after solar conjunction ends.
Did a dive into the engineering challenges posed by data centers in space. They could work! But there's a lot of technological development to be done www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Why AI Data Centers in Space Aren’t Totally Science Fiction
Tech billionaires want to move AI’s massive energy demands off Earth. The engineering hurdles are enormous.
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January 13, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Did a dive into the engineering challenges posed by data centers in space. They could work! But there's a lot of technological development to be done www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Fwiw, it was almost 10 years ago that I was warning of the exclusionary nature of Musk's vision of space colonization, subtle then but very much present. Most space advocates would pooh-pooh such talk saying Musk jcared about the survival of the whole human race and couldn't I see that?
It is amazing how no one cares. Yes times have changed, but even so if the CEO of Pepsi or Apple or Citibank said this in public, let alone daily, I suspect it would make news and end their CEO job. With Musk it's, like, "eh everyone already knows he's a Nazi, move along"
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
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January 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Fwiw, it was almost 10 years ago that I was warning of the exclusionary nature of Musk's vision of space colonization, subtle then but very much present. Most space advocates would pooh-pooh such talk saying Musk jcared about the survival of the whole human race and couldn't I see that?
A NASA press conference on the Crew-11 mission should begin shortly www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffcV...
International Space Station Update: Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026
YouTube video by NASA
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January 8, 2026 at 10:04 PM
A NASA press conference on the Crew-11 mission should begin shortly www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffcV...
Overnight, the situation on board the ISS became more serious: NASA is now considering ending Crew-11 early due to a crew member's medical issue
January 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Overnight, the situation on board the ISS became more serious: NASA is now considering ending Crew-11 early due to a crew member's medical issue
NASA is postponing tomorrow’s planned spacewalk
January 7, 2026 at 10:21 PM
NASA is postponing tomorrow’s planned spacewalk
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One note from the STScI town hall at #AAS247 today: the median reentry date for Hubble, based on current modeling, is 2033; a <10% chance of reentry by 2029.
January 7, 2026 at 9:01 PM
One note from the STScI town hall at #AAS247 today: the median reentry date for Hubble, based on current modeling, is 2033; a <10% chance of reentry by 2029.
NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has donated his own private jets to the agency and is offering incentive rides on them to NASA employees who do exceptional work. What are your thoughts on this move? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NASA’s Isaacman to Treat ‘Exceptional’ Staff to Private Jet Ride
NASA employees now have another incentive to outperform for new agency head Jared Isaacman: rides in his private F-5 jets.
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January 7, 2026 at 4:29 PM
NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has donated his own private jets to the agency and is offering incentive rides on them to NASA employees who do exceptional work. What are your thoughts on this move? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
For the new year, I have resolved to be more active on social after kind of falling off a cliff the last year. I had put most of my eggs in the Twitter basket in the 2010s. But now wondering where people find the best connection -- is it here? Insta? Gulp TikTok? Where do you live online these days?
January 6, 2026 at 2:15 PM
For the new year, I have resolved to be more active on social after kind of falling off a cliff the last year. I had put most of my eggs in the Twitter basket in the 2010s. But now wondering where people find the best connection -- is it here? Insta? Gulp TikTok? Where do you live online these days?
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House Approps has released a pkg of FY2026 approps bills including CJS (NASA & NOAA).
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January 5, 2026 at 3:53 PM
House Approps has released a pkg of FY2026 approps bills including CJS (NASA & NOAA).
appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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