{"id":15958,"date":"2026-08-18T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15958"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:01:09","slug":"satellite-operators-are-in-panic-mode-due-to-a-worsening-launch-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15958","title":{"rendered":"Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Eric Berger<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nAugust 17, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>This should be a golden era of launch.<\/p>\n<p>During the last three years, an average of 270 orbital rockets have launched from Earth, a more than threefold increase from only a decade ago. By every metric available, the launch industry is crushing it: Prices have never been more competitive, launches never more frequent, and access to space never more rapid.<\/p>\n<p>Paradoxically, though, there is a growing crunch in launch availability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/08\/theres-a-huge-launch-crunch-right-now-and-it-will-probably-get-worse\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/08\/theres-a-huge-launch-crunch-right-now-and-it-will-probably-get-worse\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/08\/theres-a-huge-launch-crunch-right-now-and-it-will-probably-get-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Berger &bull; August 17, 2026 This should be a golden era of launch. During the last three years, an average of 270 orbital rockets have launched from Earth, a more than threefold increase from only a decade ago. By every metric available, the launch industry is crushing it: Prices have never been more competitive,<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15958\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}