Stefanie Waldek

Reporter, Space, TechCrunch

Stefanie Waldek covers the space beat for TechCrunch. As a freelance journalist, she tackles subjects from aviation to Antarctica to architecture for Space.com, Popular Science, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, and Architectural Digest, among other publications. Find her on Twitter at @StefanieWaldek or at stefaniewaldek.com.

Latest from Stefanie Waldek

Space

With $20M in new funding, Hydrosat preps climate-monitoring satellites for launch
Stefanie Waldek

Apr 25, 2023
Space

NASA’s InSight mission is winding down — a look back at the Mars lander’s many accomplishments
Stefanie Waldek

Dec 20, 2022

Space

Space startup Stells wants to put spacecraft-charging covers on the moon
Stefanie Waldek

Nov 21, 2022
Space

Smashing success: NASA’s DART spacecraft bumped an asteroid off its orbit
Stefanie Waldek

Oct 11, 2022
Space

Morpheus Space’s satellite thrusters are propelled forward with a $28M Series A
Stefanie Waldek

Sep 14, 2022
Space

Northrop Grumman taps Firefly Aerospace to upgrade its Antares rocket to American-built engines
Stefanie Waldek

Aug 8, 2022

Space

SpaceX launches South Korea’s first moon mission, an orbiter named Danuri
Stefanie Waldek

Aug 5, 2022
Space

China’s new Mars images show off the country’s robust (but secretive) space program
Stefanie Waldek

Jul 1, 2022
Space

Watch Virgin Orbit’s ‘Straight Up’ launch of Space Force satellites live tonight
Stefanie Waldek

Jun 29, 2022
Space

At NASA’s Lunabotics competition, students design mining robots for the moon
Stefanie Waldek

Jun 27, 2022

Space

NASA assembles a UFO research team to study ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’
Stefanie Waldek

Jun 9, 2022
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Space

NASA awards $2 million to moonshot solar sail project
Stefanie Waldek

May 25, 2022
UK taps Virgin Orbit to launch first satellites from its own soil this summer
Stefanie Waldek

May 11, 2022
Space

GPS signals could detect tsunamis better and faster than seismic sensors
Stefanie Waldek

May 5, 2022

Space

Vyoma is the latest player seeking to prevent satellite collisions with space junk
Stefanie Waldek

Apr 29, 2022
Space

NASA grants $279M to six private satcom providers, including $70M for SpaceX
Stefanie Waldek

Apr 21, 2022
Climate

NASA finds two new space-based ways to track climate change
Stefanie Waldek

Apr 6, 2022
Space

Slingshot Aerospace scores $25M Space Force contract to build ‘digital twin’ space simulator
Stefanie Waldek

Mar 31, 2022

Startups

French aerospace company Gama raises $2M to develop a solar sail spacecraft
Stefanie Waldek

Mar 21, 2022
Space

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter will keep flying on Mars through at least September
Stefanie Waldek

Mar 21, 2022
Startups

Slingshot Aerospace raises $25M to help satellite operators navigate space traffic
Stefanie Waldek

Mar 10, 2022
Space

SpaceX launches 48 more Starlink satellites on an ‘American broomstick’
Stefanie Waldek

Mar 9, 2022

Space

SpaceX successfully launches 47 Starlink satellites
Stefanie Waldek

Mar 3, 2022
Space

NASA extends SpaceX’s Commercial Crew contract by three missions for $900 million
Stefanie Waldek

Feb 28, 2022
Space

Watch Rocket Lab launch a StriX satellite from its new launch pad in New Zealand live
Stefanie Waldek

Feb 28, 2022